Aggregate stone fruit
| Aggregate drupes |
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 ( Rubus chamaemorus ) |
The collection drupe is a special fruit shape , located in along the bulging floral axis from the numerous carpels one small drupe develops. These individual stone fruits adhere to each other and thereby form the collective stone fruit, which as a rule detaches as a whole when the fruit is ripe. This fruit shape occurs mainly in plants of the Rubus genus .
The collective stone fruits include
- Blackberry ( Rubus sectio Rubus )
- Raspberry ( Rubus idaeus )
- Japanese grape ( Rubus phoenicolasius )
- Cloudberry ( Rubus chamaemorus )
- Dewberry ( Rubus caesius )
- Asiatic flower dogwood ( Cornus kousa )