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TheAsianDonKnots@lemmy.zip · 92 pts · 156d
baconsunday@lemmy.zip · 46 pts · 156d
What keeps a peach from being a single-seed berry or from an avocado being a drupe?
Edit: low-key love that we are all learning by sharing knowledge and evidence. It's refreshing.
Edit 2: Fun Fact. Did you know Oklahoma has Watermelon as the State's Vegetable?
Ioughttamow@fedia.io · 17 pts · 156d
The hard endocarp
5765313496@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 156d
In other words, by my understanding, peaches have a pit containing their seeds, but avocados just have a seed.
jaybone@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 155d
Do avocados not have a pit?
bdonvr@thelemmy.club · 11 pts · 155d
We call it that but the whole thing is just a big ol seed
jaybone@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 155d
But how is that any different than a peach? I’m so confused by this.
bdonvr@thelemmy.club · 14 pts · 155d
Peach pits aren't seeds, but they have a seed inside.
Ioughttamow@fedia.io · 1 pts · 155d
Looks like the endocarp in the avocado is imperceptible, whereas it is the hard pit in peaches and other drupes, per Wikipedia
kn33@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 156d
Yeah this doesn't make any sense
exasperation@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 156d
Wikipedia says some categorize avocadoes as drupes:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berry_(botany)
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 155d
Drupes have pits contained within a hard shell (I guess called an endocarp?).
Peach pits look like an almond inside of a walnut shell basically. Avocados just have a really large seed in direct contact with the buttery soft mesocarp.
I don't know who decided to classify gourds, melons, and citrus fruits as berries, but I imagine they had mischief in mind...
taiyang@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 156d
Ah yes, my favorite berry... the avocado.
ripcord@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 155d
I enjoy a good pumpkin berry. Fresh from the vine.
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz · 8 pts · 155d
An apple sounds much less appealing when you describe it as an indecent (achoo) swollen receptacle tissue with a soft mesocarp...
Ioughttamow@fedia.io · 6 pts · 156d
Swollen receptacle tissue you say
deacon@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 156d
Man I am glad I tasted fruit before I read this.
rothaine@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 156d
A pumpkin is a berry?!
some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 156d
I guess so? Which I suppose means all the other gourds/squash/melons/cucumbers are too
Swallows_Dick@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 154d
Chat is this real
Klear@quokk.au · 2 pts · 156d
Pretty fruity
e8d79@discuss.tchncs.de · 38 pts · 156d
Aubergines, cucumbers, kiwi, and citrusfruit are botanical berries as well. The correct answer is that berry should be seen as a culinary term just like fruit and vegetable.
Klear@quokk.au · 17 pts · 156d
That's nuts!
some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 156d
Well ackthually... that's a legume
Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io · 27 pts · 156d
Not only that, banana is a grass berry.
SendMePhotos@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 156d
Mulligrubs@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 156d
Fruit is sweet, vegetables are savory, berries are what I declare to be a berry. Done and done
TheBlackLounge@lemmy.zip · 16 pts · 155d
Most "fruit" are sweet because we made them so. And we did so with plenty of vegetables too.
Sweetest thing in my garden are tomatoes.
Mulligrubs@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 155d
Once you grow your own tomatoes, supermarket just won't do. It's a different world, we are tomato buddies
Cort@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 155d
I'm so excited to start planting; all the tomato seeds we planned last weekend have already germinated
NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de · 3 pts · 155d
Fish are fishy.
racketlauncher831@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 155d
Mom's spaghetti.
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 155d
Mushrooms in the vegetable section hoping no one calls them out
samus12345@sh.itjust.works · 11 pts · 156d
Humans accidentally named blueberries correctly.
null@lemmy.org · 11 pts · 156d
Berries aren't berries. Vegetables aren't real.
ameancow@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 156d
ripcord@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 155d
Pictures?
WanderingThoughts@europe.pub · 7 pts · 155d
More
SpacePanda@mander.xyz · 8 pts · 156d
Also so is squash lol
mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 155d
And pumpkin, peppers, cucumbers, zucchini,...
bunchberry@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 155d
General_Effort@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 155d
I didn't know plants have ovaries. Does that mean that strawberries are like an afterbirth? Are seedless fruit menstrual flow?
Maybe humans could evolve so that the bloody placenta attracts wolves who then raise the baby.
chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 155d
You know that white stuff that the seeds attach to in chilis? That’s the placenta! It’s the spiciest part of the whole pepper!
Omnipitaph@reddthat.com · 1 pts · 155d
I can't tell if you've ruined chilies for me, or if something else is happening.
JackFrostNCola@aussie.zone · 3 pts · 155d
How about this: mangrove trees give 'birth'.
Ioughttamow@fedia.io · 3 pts · 156d
someguy3@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 156d
Now I need to know if Blackberry is a berry.
*No:
Hazmatastic@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 154d
It's the same as tomato being taxonomically a fruit. Taxonomically does not mean culinarily. Most people use culinary terms for these. Tomato is a vegetable. The first berry group is berries. Etc.
ICastFist@programming.dev · 2 pts · 154d
At times like these I'm kinda ok with portuguese lacking a "proper" word for berry. "Bago" or "baga" isn't really used, at least not in everyday life, everyone will always refer to them as fruits
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 156d
All could’ve been solved with some inclusivity, but nooo…