BUAH AGREGAT (BUAH GANDA)

jika pada suatu bunga terdapat lebih dari satu bakal buah yang bebas satu sama lain, masing
masing bakal buah dapat tumbuh menjadi buah. Tetapi disamping itu ada bagian lain pada bunga
tadi yang ikut tumbuh dan merupakan bagian buah yang menarik perhatian (dan seringkali
berguna).
Misalnya buah arbei (Fragraria vesca L.).
pada prosesnya bakal buah yang banyak dan bebas satu sama lain tadi akan tumbuh dan
berkembang, akan tetapi bagian bunga ( dasar bunga) pada buah arbe ikut tumbuh dan membesar
serta berdaging tebal dan bagian tebal itu berisi cadangan makanan. Sedangkan buah yang yang
sebenarnya adalah yang tampak seperti titik titik hitam kecil.
Beberapa buah agregat : Srikaya, Sirsak, Arbei, Strawberry

AGGREGATE FRUITS

Aggregate fruits, as you can see with the flower diagrams above, develop from
blossoms containing more than one simple pistil, and when those pistils mature they
stick together to form one thing -- the aggregate fruit. If the term "pistil" throws your
for a loop, you may want to review our Standard Blossom page. Above, the pistils are
the pale green, oval things.
In the aggregate fruit known as the Blackberry, pictured at
the right, each of the Blackberry-blossom's simple pistils
has matured into a tiny drupe, or "drupelet," and all the
flower's drupelets are adhering into a single unit, an
aggregate fruit. Each of those spherical items on the
Blackberry "fruit's" surface in the picture is a drupelet, but
the the whole blackberry is an aggregate fruit (and not,
technically, a berry, which is described on the Simple Fruits
page!).
The picture at the left may explain things a little better. The item in the picture at the
far right is an old blackberry flower. After pollination the white petals have fallen off
and now the clusters of stamens are turning brown and about to fall off. Notice the
granular appearance of the green thing in the these old flower's center. This is a
cluster of many separate
pistils. Notice the brown,
drying-up styles that in the
flower rose above the
individual ovaries.
Then at the left in the above
picture you can see that the
individual pistils are
enlarging and growing
together. This is a halfformed blackberry and the
immature drupelets still have
the old, dried-up styles atop them. This thing will grow to about twice its size here,
turn red, and finally turn black, juicy, and delicious!
Many flowers, such as Buttercups, have several simple pistils that develop into

clusters of tiny fruits (achenes and drupelets) but these do not stick together -- don't
aggregate into one fruit-like unit. Rather they develop independently and fall to the
ground separately. Thus they are not aggregate fruits. Again, aggregate fruits have
two main features:
1. The flower producing them has more than one simple pistil
2. The maturing pistils stick together and behave as a single fruit