A) pomegranate
B) orange
C) guava
D) cucumber
Correct Answer: A
Solution :
[a] Balausta is special type of false or pseudocarpic berry develops from multilocular, syncarpous inferior ovary. The whole fruit is enclosed by a hard rind made up of exocarp (epicarp fused with thalamus) and part of mesocarp. |
Plate-like infoldings are developed by mesocarp. The papery endocarp covers the individual group of seeds. The seeds possess bright red juicy testa that form edible part of fruit, eg, pomegranate. |
The fruit of cucumber is pepo. In this the exocarp is not separable from mesocarp and the seeds from placentae. |
The fruit of guava is berry. A berry is pulpy indehiscent few to multiseeded fruit derived from multicarpellary syncarpous gynoecium. |
The fruit of orange is hespiridium. It develops from multicarpellary, syncarpous multilocular, superior ovary with axile placentation. |
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