What is Multiple fruit?
[[Image:Pineapple and cross section.jpg|thumb|Pineapple is a kind of multiple fruit.]] '''Multiple fruits''' are[[fruit| fruits]] that grow from more than one [[flower]] (called an ''[[inflorescence]]'').<ref>{{cite book |author=Hickey, M.; King, C. |year=2001 |title=The Cambridge Illustrated Glossary of Botanical Terms |publisher=Cambridge University Press}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |author=Beentje, H.; Williamson, J. |year=2010 |title=The Kew Plant Glossary: an Illustrated Dictionary of Plant Terms |publisher=Kew Publishing |location=Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew}}</ref> Each [[flower]] in the inflorescence produces a fruit, and then these join together.<ref>{{cite book |last= Schlegel |title= Encyclopedic Dictionary |date= 13 May 2003 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7J-3fD67RqwC&q=Multiple+fruit&pg=PA282 |page=282|publisher= Taylor & Francis |isbn= 9781560229506 }}</ref> There are also many [[wikt:multiple|multiple]] fruits that become dry later. In languages other than [[English language|English]], the meanings of multiple and [[aggregate fruit]] are reversed.<ref>{{cite journal |author=Spjut, R.; Thieret, J. |year=1989 |title=Confusion between multiple and aggregate fruits |journal=The Botanical Review |volume=55 |issue=1 |pages=53–72 |url=https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF02868781 |doi=10.1007/bf02868781|s2cid=24994626 }}</ref> [[Image:Noni fruit dev.jpg|thumb|right|[[Noni]], flowers and developing fruit]] {{multiple image| align = right | direction = vertical | width = 200 | image1 = Liquidambar-styraciflua-fruit.jpg | image2 = Liquidambar-styraciflua-ripen-fruit.jpg | caption2 = In ''[[Liquidambar]]'', the multiple fruit later becomes dry. }} Examples of multiple fruits: *[[pineapple]] *[[mulberry]] *[[breadfruit]]. *[[fig]], tiny flowers are inside the fruit. == References == {{reflist}} [[Category:Fruits]] [[Category:Plant anatomy]] {{-}} {{biology-stub}}