Accessory fruit
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An accessory fruit, false fruit, spurious fruit, epigynous fruit, syconium or pseudocarp is a fruit where the fleshy part is derived not from the ovary but from some adjacent tissue.
An example is the apple. Other examples include cashew and figs.
Accessory fruit includes false berries (e.g. the strawberry).
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| Berries | Drupes | Pomes | Compound fruits | Multiple fruits | False berries | Accessory fruit |
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