DEVELOPMENT OF FRUIT

 Along with the development of seeds fruit development also occurs by the growth of the ovary .

fruit is the defined as the fertilized ripened ovary with or without associated parts containing one or more seed .

Fruit shows two two scars at its two opposite ends . One is the scar of female style and the other is the scar of detachment of fruit from  the parent plant .

The wall of the ovary converted in to the skin of the mature fruit called pericarp .

In some cases the  pericarp is thin and dry and not differentiated into further example - pea , rean , calotropis , cotton etc .

But when the fruit is fleshy the pericarp is the thick and further divided into outer skiny epicarp middle fibrous mesocarp and inner stony endocarp .

Example - mango , coconut , orange , cucurbita etc .

Depending upon its development , fruit are of two types 

                                                                                          a- True fruit 

                                                                                          b - false fruit 

a -True fruit ;

When a fruit is develop from the ovary is called as true fruit .

Example - mango , mustard 

b - False fruit ; 

When fruit formation occurs other calyx , corolla , thalamus  , peduncle etc it is called as false fruit .

Example   apple - from thalamus

                cashewnot - peduncle

                pea - thalamus 

                jack fruit - sepal bract and seeds 

               mulberry - bract , sepals , seeds 

Some fruits develop without fertilization and they are seed less known as parthenocarpic fruit .

Example - banana , papaya , orange , grapes etc .