Multi-fruits, also calledcollective fruits, are fruiting bodies formed from a cluster offlowers, theinflorescence. Each flower in the inflorescence produces afruit, but these mature into a single mass.^[1] After flowering, the mass is called aninfructescence.^[2][3] Examples are thefig,pineapple,mulberry,osage orange, andjackfruit.

In contrast, anaggregate fruit such as a raspberry develops from multipleovaries of a single flower. In languages other than English, the meanings of "multiple" and "aggregate" fruit are reversed, so that multiple fruits merge several pistils within a single flower.^[4]

In some cases, the infructescences are similar in appearance to simple fruits. One example is pineapple (Ananas), which is formed from thefusion of theberries withreceptacle tissues andbracts.^[5][6]

As shown in the photograph of thenoni, stages of flowering and fruit development in thenoni or Indian mulberry (Morinda citrifolia) can be observed on a single branch. First an inflorescence of white flowers called a head is produced. Afterfertilization, each flower develops into a drupe, and as the drupes expand, they becomeconnate (merge) into amultiple fleshy fruit called asyncarp. There are also many dry multiple fruits.^{[citation needed]}

Other examples of multiple fruits:

• Plane tree, multiple achenes from multiple flowers, in a single fruit structure
• Mulberry, multiple flowers form one fruit
• Breadfruit, multiple flowers form one fruit
• Fig, multiple flowers similar to mulberry infructescence form a multiple fruit inside the inverted inflorescence. This form is called asyconium.

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  Ananas comosus (pineapple)
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  Morus nigra (black mulberry)
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  Morinda citrifolia (noni)
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  Ficus carica (fig)
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  Maclura pomifera (Osage orange)
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  Platanus spp. (plane tree)
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  Artocampus heterophyllus (jackfruit)

• Compound fruit

• Fruit morphology

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