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search An apple is a pome fruit. The parts of the fruit are
labelled  In botany, a pome (after the Latin word for fruit:
pōmum) is a type of fruit produced by flowering plants in the
subtribe Malinae of the family Rosaceae.  A pome is an accessory
fruit composed of one or more carpels surrounded by accessory
tissue. The accessory tissue is interpreted by some specialists
as an extension of the receptacle and is then referred to as
"fruit cortex",[1] and by others as a fused hypanthium[1] or
"torus";[2] it is the most edible part of this fruit.  The
carpels of a pome are fused within the "core".[3] Although the
exocarp, mesocarp, and endocarp of some other fruit types look
very much like the skin, flesh, and core respectively of a pome,
they are parts of the carpel (see diagram). The exocarp and
mesocarp of a pome may be fleshy and difficult to distinguish
from one another and from the hypanthial tissue. The endocarp
forms a leathery or stony case arou