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Pineapple (annanas) fruit develops from:

  1. A
    a unilocular polycarpillary flower
  2. B
    a multipistillate syncarpous flower
  3. C
    a cluster of compactly borne flowers on a common axis
  4. D
    a multilocular monocarpillary flower

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Pineapple is a multiple or composite fruit (sorosis) that develops from an entire inflorescence (a cluster of compactly borne flowers on a common axis).

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Pineapple (annanas) fruit develops from:
A
a unilocular polycarpillary flower
B
a multipistillate syncarpous flower
C
a cluster of compactly borne flowers on a common axis
D
a multilocular monocarpillary flower

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