The compound fruit is a syncarp of numerous small drupes, in which the carpels ( ovaries ) have grown together.
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Female plants produce round, compound fruit about 10-20 cm in diameter made up of merged drupes, resembling a pineapple.
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The distinctive compound fruit is hard, dry, and globose, in diameter, composed of numerous ( 40-60 ) capsules.
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When the fruit opens and the seeds are released, each capsule is associated with a small hole ( 40-60 of these ) in the compound fruit.
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Corolla white, stamens usually 9 . Compound fruit comprises maximum 20 achenes, each 1.4-1.6 mm long x 1 mm wide with a broad crested keel and with crested ribs and 1 or 2 long glands on each face, beak 0.2 mm long.
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