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Compound Ovary (HUANG_Yu)
Updated on 19/04/2016

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Cross section of a tomato - compound ovary

Compound ovary means there are more than one ovary in a simple fruit. One of the example is the tomato. This photo above shows two ovaries with many seeds within a fruit.

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Thanks for your input. More accurately, a compound ovary is a ovary with fused carpels.

by Cherry_Chow (Teacher) at 2016-04-21 11:29:34

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