Topic: Flower, fruit and seed· Structural Organisation in Animals and Plants

Coconut fruit is a :

1. Berry

2. Nut

3. Capsule

4. Drupe

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Answer: 4. Drupe

Coconut is a drupe: a one-seeded fruit developed from a superior ovary.

It has a fibrous mesocarp (husk) and a hard stony endocarp (shell), like mango. A berry has a fleshy pericarp throughout, a nut has a hard dry pericarp, and a capsule opens to release many seeds.

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