How is a simple fruit different from a complex fruit?
                                
                                
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                                Botanically speaking, most people are surprised to learn that a strawberry is not a berry, but an aggregate fruit. The primary difference between a simple fruit and a complex fruit lies in the flower or flowers from which they develop. Simple fruits arise from a single ovary, while complex fruits, also known as compound fruits, originate from multiple ovaries of one or more flowers.