Accessory fruit the perianth (floral whorls). Fruit with fleshy seeds, such as pomegranate or mamoncillo, are not considered to be accessory fruit. The terms "false fruit", "spurious fruit", and "pseudocarp" are older terms for accessory fruit that have been criticized as "inapt", and are not used by some botanists today. Accessory fruit An accessory fruit (sometimes called "false fruit", "spurious fruit", "pseudofruit", or "pseudocarp") is a fruit in which some of the flesh is derived not from the ovary but from some adjacent tissue exterior to the carpel. Examples of accessory tissue are the receptacle of the strawberry, pineapple, common fig, and
Peel (fruit) Peel (fruit) Peel, also known as rind or skin, is the outer protective layer of a fruit or vegetable which can be peeled off. The rind is usually the botanical exocarp, but the term exocarp also includes the hard cases of nuts, which are not named peels since they are not peeled off by hand or peeler, but rather shells because of their hardness. A fruit with a thick peel, such as a citrus fruit, is called a hesperidium. In hesperidia, the inner layer (also called "albedo" or, among non-botanists, "pith") is peeled off together with the outer layer (called