Accessory fruit


An accessory fruit is a fruit in which some of the flesh is derived not from the floral ovary but from some adjacent tissue exterior to the carpel.
Family name - Cucurbitaceae

Terminology

Alternative terms for accessory fruit are false fruit, spurious fruit, pseudofruit, or pseudocarp. These are older terms for accessory fruit that have been criticized as "inapt", and are not used by some botanists today.

Examples

The following are examples of accessory fruits listed by the plant organ from which the accessory tissue is derived:
Fruit with fleshy seeds, such as pomegranate or mamoncillo, are not considered to be accessory fruits.