The world is full of interesting and delicious fruits. From sour grapes to giant pumpkins, there are around 2,000 different types of fruits growing around the globe. In botanical terms, a fruit is a ripened ovary, a reproductive structure that bears the plant’s ovule, also known as the seeds. Once a plant is pollinated, fruits begin to emerge from the fertilised flower and develop, mature and ripen, by which time the encapsulated seeds are ready for dispersal.
When it comes to identifying fruits, there are a whole host of subcategories they fall into. However, they largely sit within one of three categories: simple, aggregate and multiple. Simple fruits include the majority of fruits, such as stone fruits, pome and berries. Their anatomy is typically divided into three parts; the exocarp, mesocarp and endocarp. The outer skin is its exocarp, the mesocarp forms its flesh and the endocarp forms the innermost part of the fruit – the seeds.
Aggregate fruits, on the other hand, are merged from individual flowers that
