Apples & Bananas

Simple, aggregate, & multiple

general fruit types

simple fruit

-develops from the ovary of a single carpel (or several fused carpels) of a single flower

-can either be fleshy or dry when mature

-5 types of fleshy fruit

Berry

entire fruit wall is soft and felshy at maturity ex: grapes & tomatoes

Hesperidium

a berry w/ a tough leather rind (ex: oranges, lemons, other citrus)

Drupe

outer part of fruit wall is fot and fleshy while the inneer part is hard and stony ex: cherry, peach, plum

Pepo

-also a fleshy fruit w/ a tougher outer rind

-ex: pumpkins, melons, & cucumbers

-includes all members of the squash family

Pomes

most of the fleshy part develops from the enlarged base of the perianth (corolla & calyx) that has fused w/ the ovary wall

ex: apples & pears

Central Asia/Kazakstan

origin of apples

South East Asia & Papua New Guinea

Banana orgins

Propagation by side shoots

How are bananas grown?