Aggregate fruit

• Title

  Aggregate fruit

• Definition

  A fruit formed by the coalescence of carpels that were distinct (apocarpous) in flower; e.g., Rubus (blackberry) and Fragaria (strawberry)..

• Related Terms

  Carpel

  Gynoecium apocarpous

  Achene

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