Pineapple (ananas) fruit develops from
- a multilocular monocarpellary flower
- a unilocular polycarpellary flower
- a multipistillate syncarpous flower
- a cluster of compactly borne flowers on a common axis
Answer
(4) a cluster of compactly borne flowers on a common axis
Solution
As per NCERT, in some plants such as pineapple, a fruit develops from the whole inflorescence.
∵ In pineapple the many flowers of a spike-like inflorescence, compactly borne on a common axis, fuse together to form one composite fruit (sorosis).
∴ The fruit develops from a cluster of compactly borne flowers on a common axis, not from a single flower.
Answer: (4)