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Q. Composite fruit develops from

AIIMSAIIMS 2007Morphology of Flowering Plants

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Composite fruits are multiple fruits which are developed from the complete inflorescence and are also called as infructescence. They are of two types sorosis and syconus. Spike, spadix and catkin type of inflorescence gives rise to this type of fruit eg Ananas Artocarpus. Syconus develops from a hypanthodium inflorescence eg Ficus.