Hi Katie & Neil yes Katie, it is a composite or compound fruit as the entire inflorescence develops in to a single fruit and it is called sorosis.If you carefully search for you will notice that each eye of Baratondi has a flower.Other examples of sorosis are mulberry,pinepple & jackfruit. unlike in Sitaphal[Custard Apple Anona squamosa] where the fruit is an aggregate fruit as it develops from a single flower[multicarpellary apocarpus ovary] & the fruit is called an etario of berries.This is commonly found in primitive family like anonaceae,magnoliaceae.
cheers Usha On 19/06/2009, katie bagli <katieba...@yahoo.co.in> wrote: > > It is a composite fruit as several flowers make up one fruit. > Cheers, > katie > > --- On *Thu, 6/18/09, Usha Desai <ushande...@gmail.com>* wrote: > > > > From: Usha Desai <ushande...@gmail.com> > Subject: [indiantreepix:13424] Quiz on the fruit of Morinda > To: indiantreepix@googlegroups.com > Date: Thursday, June 18, 2009, 7:45 PM > > Friends > we have had a lot of discussion on Baratondi > so it is but natural that everyone is aware of > its morphology. > Is it a composite fruit like Jackfruit > or an aggregate fruit like Custard apple[Sitaphal] > and plz give your reason why U say so. > Cheers. Usha > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "indiantreepix" group. To post to this group, send email to indiantreepix@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to indiantreepix+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.co.in/group/indiantreepix?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
