Sorosis

The term sorosis means the fleshy type of fruit formed by the process of combination of various flowers with their particular container or repository, ovaries, etc. as the breadfruit, mulberry, and pineapple. This type of structure in Sorosis typically includes leftovers of floral tissues, for example, the perianth. Sorosis can also be defined as the process where multiple fruits are known to be developed from spike; for example, we can’t take fruits such as:

1. Artocarpus – jackfruit
2. spadix – Monstera
3. catkin inflorescences – Morus

An Ananas sativus and Casuarina, sorosis fruits are often found. A sorosis fruit or compound fruit is mainly composed of two or more similar parts known yet, such as (an aggregate fruit, multiple fruits, a simple fruit).

Aggregate fruit

An etaerio or an aggregate fruit is the type of fruit that is developed by the process of the merging of various kinds of ovaries that were picked and separated from a particular single flower. However, we can conclude that from one particular ovary, a single simple fruit is developed. The meanings of “aggregate” and “multiple” fruit in languages other than English means reversed fruits, so the aggregate fruit is known to merge as several flowers. Some examples of “aggregate” fruit and “multiple” fruits are 

• A raspberry fruit (shown in the form of a raspberry beetle larva) is an aggregate fruit, an aggregate of drupelets.
• The fruit of an Aquilegia flower is one of those fruits that form from several ovaries present in one flower, and it is also an aggregate of follicles. However, because the follicles are not fused in time, it is not considered an aggregate fruit.

Not all flowers comprising multiple ovaries are from “aggregate” fruits and “multiple” fruits. In various flowers, the ovaries of some particular flowers do not engage and form tightly joined together to make a fruit usually larger. As a result, many fruits are commonly mistaken to be one of the aggregate varieties. Accessory fruits are also another name for “aggregate” fruit or “multiple” fruit, in which parts of the flower other than the ovary develop into fleshy and form part of the respective fruit. In an aggregate fruit, the individual parts come in many various forms the examples of these types of fruits are ;

• Druplets (Raspberry, Dewberry, and blackberry, also a known an accessory fruit, with a fleshy container)
• Achenes (Strawberry, also a known accessory fruit, consisting of a fleshy container, Ranunculus)
• Follicles (Magnolia)
• Samaras (Liriodendron tulipifera)

The part which is more difficult to define is the components of other aggregate fruits such as sugar apple (Annona spp), fruits that are made up of their berry-like pistils fused with the respective container.

Multiple fruits

In Sorosis, there is a particular type of fruit known to us as multiple fruits. Multiple fruits are also referred to and termed to us as collective fruits. Multiple or collective fruits are the fruiting bodies formed due to the formation of a cluster of flowers also (the inflorescence). The flowers present in each inflorescence produce a fruit; later, these fruits mature into a single mass. 

After completing the flowering of the mass, the particular mass is called an infructescence. Some of the examples of infructescence are as follows (pineapple, mulberry, osage-orange, and jackfruit). However, in contrast, Raspberry, an example of an aggregate fruit, usually develops from multiple ovaries of a definite single flower. As we already know, the meanings of “aggregate” and “multiple” fruit in languages other than English means reversed fruits. But in some cases, the infructescences and the simple fruit are often similar in appearance. One example of this phenomenon is pineapple (Ananas), which is developed from the fusion of the berries with tissues that contain them and other bracts.

In some plants, for example, this noni, flowers are continuously produced, and it is even possible to visually observe examples of flowering, fruit development, and fruit ripening all together on a single stem. 

In the development process of noni or Indian mulberry (Morinda citrifolia), an inflorescence of white flowers, which is called the head, is observed. Each flower then forms into a drupe, and as the drupes tend to expand, they become connate (merge) into multiple fleshy fruits known as a syncarp.

Some of the other examples of multiple fruits are as follows;

• Planetree, multiple nuts from multiple flowers form into a single fruit structure.
• Mulberry, multiple flowers contract in one fruit
• Breadfruit, multiple flowers contract in one fruit
• Fig.

Compound Fruit

A fruit that develops from several ovaries in either a single flower or multiple flowers is what we call a compound fruit among Sorosis. Contrarily, a simple fruit develops from a single ovary. Compound fruits could also be aggregate fruits; because in aggregate fruits, a single flower is responsible for the formation of fruit (so-called aggregate fruit). A single flower containing various ovaries where a small fruit is developed from every ovary. These small fruits form a bunch of fruits collectively to form a larger fruit which is called the aggregate fruit.

Ironically, compound fruits can also be called multiple fruits because several flowers, each with its respective ovary, help in the formation of a smaller fruit which is usually compacted or clustered together into a larger fruit. Pineapple (Ananas) is a good example of compound fruit. However, grapes seem to be a compound fruit, but they are not. From one ovary in one flower, one particular grape grows, and each grape remains a non-dependent fruit.

Conclusion

In a pineapple (Ananas) plant, the plant produces around more or less 200 flowers discreetly, which later combine and fuse to form a single complex multiple fruits; this phenomenon is called Sorosis. Do you know what the life expectancy of someone with stage 4 cirrhosis is? To answer that, we first need to know what cirrhosis is? Cirrhosis is one of the last or final stages of deadly liver disease. Cirrhosis causes the liver to get scarred and causes permanent damage. In Decompensated cirrhosis, the patient goes through 

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