Aggregate fruit

[3] The differences in meaning are due to a reversal in the terminology by John Lindley, which has been followed by most English-language authors.

[3][4] Not all flowers with multiple ovaries form aggregate fruit; the ovaries of some flowers do not become tightly joined to make a larger fruit.

As a result, many fruits form which are commonly mistaken to be of the aggregate variety.

Common examples are: The components of other aggregate fruit are more difficult to define.

fruit are made up of individual berry-like pistils fused with the receptacle.

A raspberry fruit (shown with a raspberry beetle larva) is an aggregate fruit, an aggregate of drupelets
The fruit of an Aquilegia flower is one fruit that forms from several ovaries of one flower, and it is an aggregate of follicles. However, because the follicles are not fused to one another, it is not considered an aggregate fruit
A sugar apple fruit forms from the pistils and receptacle of one flower