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The Rosaceae or rose family is a large family of plants, with about 3,000-4,000 species in 100-120 genera. It is divided into four subfamilies, mainly on the basis of how the fruit develops:

• Subfamily Rosoideae: Many small fruits, each of which is an achene or drupelet, and often the fleshy part of the fruit (e.g. strawberry) is the hypanthium or the stalk bearing the carpels. Rose, blackberry, raspberry, strawberryThe strawberry Fragaria is the fruit of a plant in the family Rosaceae (Rose Family). It is an accessory fruit; that is, the fleshy part is derived not from the ovaries (which are the seeds, actually achenes) but from the peg at the bottom of the hypanthi.
• Subfamily Spiraeoideae: A non-fleshy fruit consisting of five capsules. Spiraea.
• Subfamily Maloideae: Five capsules (called "cores") in a fleshy endocarp, surrounded by the ripened stem tissue. This structure is called a pomeIn botany, a pome (after the French name for an apple, pomme is a type of fruit, produced by flowering plants in the subfamily Maloideae of the family Rosaceae. A pome is an accessory fruit composed of five or more carpels in which the exocarp forms an in (after the FrenchFrench le francais la langue francaise is one of the most important Romance languages, outnumbered only by Spanish and Portuguese. French is the 11th most spoken language in the world, spoken by about 77 million people (called Francophones) as a mother to name for an apple, pomme). Apple, hawthorn, pear, quince, rowan.
• Subfamily Amygdaloideae (or Prunoideae): A single drupe with a seam, two veins next to the seam, and one vein opposite the seam. Plum, peach, almond, cherry.