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Compound fruit

A compound fruit may be:

• Anaggregate fruit, in which one flower contains several separate ovaries, which merge during development.
• Amultiple fruit, in which several flowers, each with an ovary, develop into small fruits that are clustered or fused together into a larger fruit.
• A simple fruit formed from a compound ovary.

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  Araspberry is an aggregate fruit (shown with a raspberry beetle larva)
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  Apineapple is a multiple fruit
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  A tomato is a simple fruit derived from a compound ovary

Grapes grow in clusters, but are not compound fruits. Each grape is grown from one ovary in one flower, and each grape remains an independent fruit.

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