False fruits: apple and strawberryकूट फल: सेब व स्ट्रॉबेरी

NCERT Fig 1.15b · Class 12 Biology · Chapter 1 · interactive diagram

Parts and their functions

• Thalamus (पुष्पासन) — In apple, strawberry and cashew the THALAMUS also contributes to fruit formation — such fruits are FALSE FRUITS. Most fruits develop only from the ovary = true fruits.
• Ovary part (core) (अंडाशय भाग) — The ovary wall becomes the fruit wall (pericarp); in apple it forms the central core around the seeds.
• Seeds (बीज) — Ovules → seeds, inside the ovary part.
• Achenes (एकीन) — The small dry "seeds" on a strawberry are actually tiny fruits (from separate carpels) sitting on the enlarged fleshy thalamus.

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