Aggregate Fruit

thumb|left|The fruit of an Aquilegia flower is an aggregate of follicles, but is not "an aggregate fruit"
An aggregate fruit or etaerio is a fruit that develops from the merger of several ovaries that were separate in a single flower.
In contrast, a simple fruit develops from one ovary.
Not all flowers with multiple ovaries form aggregate fruit; the ovaries of some flowers do not become tightly joined together to make a larger fruit.
 
Aggregate fruits may also be accessory fruits, in which parts of the flower other than the ovary become fleshy and form part of the fruit.
Aggregate fruits include:
* Raspberry 
* Dewberry and Blackberry, also accessory fruit, with a fleshy receptacle
* Strawberry, also an accessory fruit, with a fleshy receptacle
==See also==
* Multiple fruit, a structure formed from the ovaries of several flowers, that can resemble an aggregate fruit
* Compound fruit, a term sometimes used when it is not clear whether a fruit is an aggregate fruit, a multiple fruit, or a simple fruit formed from a compound ovary
* Carpel, the "building blocks" of the ovary
==References==
Category:Fruit morphology
Category:Fruit anatomy