After double fertilization, flowers fall off. Ovules thicken walls to form seeds. Ovaries enlarge to make new organs {fruit}|.
Fruits are mature-ovule seeds and ovary walls {pericarp}. Ovary walls can be fleshy, as in apple, or dry and hard, as in maple. Seeds can be in ovary, as in apples, peaches, oranges, squash, and cucumbers. Seeds can be on surface, as in corn and strawberry. Fleshy fruits can have one or more seeds and skin, as tomato, cranberry, banana, and grape. Compound inferior ovaries can have many seeds in thick flesh {pome}, as in pear and apple.
botanical fruit
Tomato, squash, cucumber, and eggplant {botanical fruit} develop from flowers and so are not like vegetables.
dehiscent
Some fruits do not split open to release seed {indehiscent} and are typically samaras. Dry fruits can have one seed that splits open {dehiscent}, as in walnut.
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