Apple fruit

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Apple fruit

Apple fruit of the cultivated apple ( Malus domestica ) in cross section

Under an apple fruit is understood in the plant morphology by axle tissue surrounded bellows or pomes , so false fruits .

Here, originally located on the Ventralnaht (inside) open follicles already in the period of bloom in the flower base sunk (under constant ovary ). The flower axis then grows into a fleshy tissue as the fruit ripens. In the inner part of the apple fruit is produced from the bellows-like fruit leaves a parchment-like and bony (stone, Nußapfel) cores ( endocarp ). The outer pulp itself only contains a few stone cell nests .

Apple fruits are typical of the Rosaceae sub-tribus of the pome fruit family (Pyrinae). Well-known examples are the eponymous apple , the pear and quince , but also the rowan and the sorb part of it ( pome fruit ).

The fruit of the roses , the rose hip , is similar , a nut fruit with free nuts ( achenes ), which are more or less surrounded by fleshy axis tissue.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Liselotte Langhammer: Fundamentals of Pharmaceutical Biology. Springer, 1980, ISBN 978-3-540-09600-9 , p. 230.