Infructescence: Not fruits at all
All my life I have been a fan of fruits, it was expected because my mother always had good eating habits and because I lived a small part of my childhood on a farm.
In fact one of my favorite fruits, although they do not grow where I used to live, are pineapples, either natural or in any type of dessert. But a few years ago while reading a botanical book I realized that it could not be one of my "favorite fruits" because technically it is not a fruit, but rather it is an infructescence.
The difference is in the fact that a fruit originates when the ovule of a flower is fertilized, which grows with the seeds inside it, while an infructescence grows when fertilizing a compact inflorescence.
An inflorescence are stems that produce flowers but not leaves, these can vary in number and have different distributions.
Therefore these flowers to be fertilized give rise to small fruits that depending on their distribution can merge giving rise to an infructescence (as in the case of pineapple) or not (such as bunches of grapes).
That's all for today. I hope you liked it. Regards!
Toda mi vida he sido fanático de las frutas, era de esperar pues mi madre siempre tuvo buenos hábitos alimenticios y porque viví una pequeña parte de mi infancia en una granja.
De hecho una de mis frutas favoritas, a pesar de que no crecen en donde solía vivir son las piñas, ya sean naturales o en cualquier tipo de postre. Pero hace unos años mientras leía un libro de botánica me di cuenta que no podía ser una mis "fruta favorita" porque técnicamente no se trata de una fruta, sino que se trata de una infrutescencia.
La diferencia radica en que una fruta se origina cuando el óvulo de una flor es fecundado, el cual crece con las semillas en su interior, mientras que una infrutescencia crece al fecundar una inflorescencia compacta.
Una inflorescencia son tallos que producen flores pero no hojas, estas pueden variar en número y tener diversas distribuciones.
Por lo tanto estas flores al ser fecundadas dan lugar a pequeños frutos que dependiendo de su distribucion pueden fusionarse dando lugar a una infrutescencia (como en el caso de la piña) o no (como los racimos de uvas).
Eso fué todo por hoy. Espero les haya gustadp. Saludos!
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