Question

The fruit of watermelon is
A. Pome
B. Sorosis
C. Pepo
D. Drupe

Answer 1

Hint: Flowers will give us fruits to eat. These fruits can be formed from different parts of the ovary or flower. They can be seedless or with seeds. The nature of the fruit depends on the part from which it is maturing. Their juicy succulent is formed from the inflorescence.

Step by step answer: The flower is the reproductive part of the plant that gives rise to fruit after the fertilization of pollen with the ovules, the ovules from the seed in the fruit. These fruits are sometimes formed from some other part of the flower or ovary, so this gives us different kinds of fruit.
Option A: Pome: A fruit with a tough central core with seed is pome. For example – Apple, pear.
Option B: Sorosis: The fleshy fruit from the multiple ovaries is sorosis. For example – pineapple and mulberry.
Option C: Pepo: Watermelon is a pepo. It is a berry with a hard and thick rind. There are seeds in the fleshy interior.
Option D: Drupe: Fruit with thin flesh and having a single seed. Almond, plum are examples.
So the answer is option C: Pepo

Note: There are 3 types of succulent fruits. The first is drupe- it is the stone fruit like mango, coconut, etc, whose pericarp is differentiated into thin pericarp and stony endocarp. The second is pomes- fleshy fruit which is surrounded by fleshy edible thalamus like apple, pear, etc. The third is the berry- they have no hard part except for seed, they are all juicy and fleshy. Example date, banana etc.