How many plants in the list given below have composite fruits that develop from an inflorescence? Walnut, poppy, radish, fig, pineapple, apple, tomato, mulberry

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Composite fruits or multiple fruits are the fruits formed from the entire inflorescence of the fruiting bodies rather than from a single flower. These fruiting bodies form one single fruiting mass when fused while development eg: pineapple. There are two kinds of composite fruits categorized on basis of inflorescence, sorosis where the fruit develops from the ovaries of several flowers eg: mulberry and synchronous, when the fruit develops from the flowers which are grown in the hollow fleshy stalk of inflorescence