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
Fruit anatomy rate of germinating seeds. Fruit anatomy Fruit anatomy is the plant anatomy of the internal structure of fruit. Fruits are the mature ovary or ovaries of one or more flowers. In fleshy fruits, the outer layer (which is often edible) is the "pericarp", which is the tissue that develops from the ovary wall of the flower and surrounds the seeds. But in some seemingly pericarp fruits, the edible portion is not derived from the ovary. For example, in the fruit of the ackee tree the edible portion is an aril, and in the pineapple several tissues from the flower and