compound ovary

Several carpels can be fused together to from a compound ovary.

A carpel is the constituent unit of a compound ovary.

A simple fruit formed from a compound ovary.

Nuts on the other hand do not release seeds as they are a compound ovary containing both a single seed and the fruit.

An utricle is like an achene, but it has a compound ovary, sometimes with several seeds.

Within the compound ovary, the carpels may have distinct locules divided by walls called septa.

Fruits of sedges are sometimes considered achenes although their one-locule ovary is actually a compound ovary (plants).

The fruit is a large and inflated capsule, growing from a compound ovary, and is composed of several united follicles, each containing numerous seeds.

That with two or more fused carpels (called a compound ovary or compound pistil) is termed syncarpous.

Simple fruits can be either dry or fleshy, and result from the ripening of a simple or compound ovary in a flower with only one pistil.

In a syncarpous gynoecium, the fused ovaries of the constituent carpels may be referred to collectively as a single compound ovary.

The superior gynoecium has two to five carpels (members of a compound pistil) and is syncarpous; i.e. with these carpels united in a compound ovary.

Most seeds come from fruits that naturally free themselves from the shell, unlike nuts such as hazelnuts, chestnuts, and acorns, which have hard shell walls and originate from a compound ovary.