ACCESSORY FRUIT

strawberry: the 'seeds' are the real fruits ("achenes")

An 'accessory fruit', 'false fruit', 'spurious fruit', 'epigynous fruit' or 'pseudocarp' is a fruit where the fleshy part is derived not from the ovary but from some adjacent tissue.
An example is the apple. Other examples include cashew and ficus.
Accessory fruit includes false berries (e.g. the strawberry).

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