Simple fruit

Simple fruits are the result of the ripening-to-fruit of a simple or compound ovary in a single flower with a single pistil.

A simple fruit is further classified as either dry or fleshy.

Or the distribution process may rely upon the decay and degradation of the fruit to expose the seeds; or it may rely upon the eating of fruit and excreting of seeds by frugivores – both are called indehiscence.

Fleshy fruits do not split open, but they also are indehiscent and they may also rely on frugivores for distribution of their seeds.

Typically, the entire outer layer of the ovary wall ripens into a potentially edible pericarp.