In botany, a pome (after the Latin name for fruit: pomum)'s a specialty type of fruit produced by flowering plants in the subfamily Maloideae of the family Rosaceae. A pome's an accessory fruit composed of one or more carpels surrounded by accessory tissue. The accessory tissue's interpreted by some specialists as an extension of the receptacle and's then referred to as "fruit cortex", and by others as a fused hypanthium; it's the most edible part of this fruit. Although the exocarp, mesocarp,… (More on Pome)