In botany, a pome (after the Latin name for fruit: pomum) is a specialty type of fruit produced by flowering plants in the subfamily Maloideae 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"Esau, K. 1977. Anatomy of seed plants. John Wiley and Sons, New York., and by others as a fused hypanthium… (More on Pome)