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Multiple fruits, also called collective fruits, are fruiting bodies formed from a cluster of fruiting flowers, the ''inflorescence''. Each flower in the inflorescence produces a fruit, but these mature into a single mass in which each flower has produced a true fruit. After flowering the mass is called an infructescence. Examples are the fig, pineapple, mulberry, osage-orange, and breadfruit. In languages other than English, the meanings of multiple and aggregate fruit are reversed, so that multiple fruits merge several pistils within a single flower. In the photograph on the left, stages of flowering and fruit development in the noni or Indian mulberry (''Morinda citrifolia'') can be observed on a single branch. First an inflorescence of white flowers called a head is produced. After fertilization, each flower develops into a drupe, and as the drupes expand, they become ''connate'' (merge) into a ''multiple fleshy fruit'' called a ''syncarp''. There are also many dry multiple fruits. Other examples of multiple fruits: *Platanus, multiple achenes from multiple flowers, in a single fruit structure *Mulberry, multiple flowers form one fruit *Fig, multiple flowers similar to mulberry infructescence form a multiple fruit inside the inverted inflorescence. This form is called a Syconium == See also == * Fruits * Compound fruit 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「multiple fruit」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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