Aggregate fruit

Japanese: aggregate fruit(英語表記)aggregatefruit
Aggregate fruit

…The most traditional and commonly used method is to classify fruits into four types, focusing on the morphology of the inflorescence, flower, and pistil. (1) Simple fruit: A flower with one pistil, and the fruit is mainly a developed ovary. (2) Aggregate fruit: A flower with two or more separate pistils, and therefore produces multiple fruits (each fruit is also called a fruitlet). (3) Multiple fruit: A fruit that appears to be one fruit, but is actually a dense collection of fruits from multiple flowers. And (4) Ornamental fruit (false fruit), as mentioned above. Simple fruits include peaches, beans, mandarins, mangoes, persimmons, tomatoes, and peppers (Figure 1-a). …

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Japanese:

…そのうち最も伝統的で,一般的に使われているのは,花序,花,めしべの形態を重視して,次のように4型に大別する方法である。(1)単果simple fruit 一つのめしべをもつ花にみられ,実は主に子房が発達したもの,(2)複合果aggregate fruit 二つ以上の離生めしべをもつために,一つの花に複数の実ができるもの(個々の実を小果fruitletともいう),(3)集合果multiple fruit 見かけ上一つの実のように見えるが,多数の花に由来した実が密に集まったもの,さらに前述した(4)装飾果(偽果)である。 単果としてはモモ,マメ,ミカン,マンゴー,カキ,トマト,ピーマンなどがある(図1-a)。…

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