Fruit garnish

In botany, a fruit is the seed-bearing structure in flowering plants that is fruit garnish from the ovary after flowering. Many common language terms used for fruit and seeds differ from botanical classifications. However, the fruit wall is thin and fused to the seed coat, so almost all the edible grain-fruit is actually a seed.

The outer layer, often edible, of most fruits is called the pericarp. The pericarp may be described in three layers from outer to inner, i. Fruit that bears a prominent pointed terminal projection is said to be beaked. A fruit results from the fertilizing and maturing of one or more flowers. Two sperm are transferred from the pollen to a megagametophyte. The parts of a flower, showing the stigma-style-ovary system. An apple is a simple fleshy fruit.