Apocarpous
/ap-oh-KAR-pus/🌸 Flower Parts●●● Advanced
An apocarpous flower carries a gynoecium of two or more carpels that stay free of one another, each with its own ovary and each ripening into a separate fruitlet. The condition is regarded as the ancestral one among flowering plants, fusion into a single compound pistil arising later and repeatedly. The buttercup and magnolia families show it plainly, their small fruits standing in a head.
Example
“A raspberry shows the apocarpous condition in the hand: each drupelet grew from a carpel that never fused with its neighbours.”