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Pharmacognosy-2 (PG303)

2- Aggregat

✓ Develops from one flower with many separate pistils
(Apocarpous ovary) each free carpel develops a fruit.

Examples: Strawberry, Raspberries, Blackberries.

 They may be:
1- Aggregate of achenes (strawberry)
2- Aggregate of follicles (star anise).

3‐ Composit

✓ Develops from ovaries of several flowers borne/fuse
(Developed from inflorescence)

Strobile:
Derived from a scaly inflorescence e.g., Hops.
Sorosis:
Derived from a spike inflorescence, with swollen fle
embedded and fused together by fleshy bracts (Lon
Synconus:
inflorescence axis enclosing achene like Formed of
bodies formed from female flowers lining the recep