Question

What is a fruit that develops from hypanthodium inflorescence?

Answer 1

Hint: Hypanthodium is a box-like inflorescence in which the fleshy receptacle forms the box. It has a single pore called an ostiole that connects it to the outside world. The fleshy receptacle in the shape of a hollow pear encloses a number of tiny male and female flowers, gets fleshy, and forms the fruit.

Complete answer:
Syconus fruit is a fruit that develops from hypanthodium inflorescence. Ficus is a good example. A Hypanthodium is a box-shaped inflorescence with a fleshy receptacle that opens to the outside by an ostiole (single pore). The hollow, pear-shaped, fleshy receptacle surrounds multiple small females and male flowers, which turn fleshy and form the fruit.

Each inflorescence flower generates a fruit, however these mature into a single mass in which each flower produces a genuine fruit. The mass after flowering is known as an infructescence. The fig, pineapple, mulberry, osage-orange, and breadfruit are other examples.

Hypanthodium inflorescence. Hypanthodium is a fleshy receptacle that forms a hollow cavity with an ostiole at the apex. The flowers are developed on an inner wall of the hollow cavity.

Note: A type of fruit made up of the ovaries of several flowers blooming in a cluster or fused together to form a bigger fruit. Pineapple and mulberry are examples of numerous fruits. Each component of a pineapple was made up of individual fruits that were fused together to form a pineapple.