Botany - Morphology of Flowering Plants Question with Solution | TestHub
The fruit is chambered, developed from inferior ovary and has seeds with succulent testa inNEET 2008 (Screening)
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Balausta is special type of false or pseudocarpic berry develops from multilocular, syncarpous inferior ovary. The whole fruit is enclosed by a hard rind made up of exocarp (epicarp fused with thalamus) and part of mesocarp. Plate-like infoldings are developed by mesocarp. The papery endocarp covers the individual group of seeds. The seeds possess bright red juicy testa that form edible part of fruit, , pomegranate. The fruit of cucumber is pepo. In this the exocarp is not separable from mesocarp and the seeds from placentae. The fruit of guava is berry. A berry is pulpy, indehiscent few to multiseeded fruit derived from multicarpellary syncarpous gynoecium. The fruit of orange is hespiridium. It develops from multicarpellary, syncarpous, multilocular, superior ovary with axile placentation.
