Question

Pineapple fruit develops from,
A) A cluster of flowers borne compactly on a common axis
B) Multilocular monocarpellary flower
C) Unilocular monocarpellary flower
D) Multipistilate syncarpous flower

Answer 1

Hint: The pineapple is an edible fruit of the plant Ananas comosus of the family Bromeliaceae.

Complete Answer:
- The pineapple fruit is not a single fruit, it has a group of berries fused. A pineapple plant has sticky leaves whorled around the central or main stem. The pineapple fruit grows on the very top of the main stem. The fruit is a fused form of many flowers.
- Almost 200 flowers are required to be developed into a pineapple fruit. Various side shoots are produced in the leaf axil of the main stem or the central stem of it. All ovaries in the flowers together make a large compact accessory fruit.

So, the ‘A cluster of flowers borne compactly on a common axis’ is the correct answer.

Additional information:
The interesting fact with pineapple fruit is it does not grow from seeds, unlike other fruits.
Pineapples grow from the crown of the pineapple fruit or the offsets that grow around the base of the mature plant.

Note: Pineapple fruit is formed from many fruit-producing flowers. As the name says pine + apple, but it is neither the pine fruit nor the apple. It is a group of berries.