Simple fruits

Simple fruits are fruits that develop from single ovaries.

These fruits may be considered fleshy fruits (as discussed earlier) or dry fruits.

Dry fruits may be indehiscent (not splitting open to release seed). These indehiscent fruits generally contain only one seed. In species with indehiscent fruits, entire fruits (or single-seeded sections of fruit) are dispersed from the plant, rather than individual seeds.

Dry fruits that split open to release their seeds are called dehiscent fruits.

There are several types of fleshy fruits, indehiscent dry fruits, and dehiscent dry fruits.