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DeckPacker@lemmy.world to Comic Strips@lemmy.world · 2 days ago

WTF, a banana is a berry!!?

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WTF, a banana is a berry!!?

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DeckPacker@lemmy.world to Comic Strips@lemmy.world · 2 days ago
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      Chat is this real

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      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?

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        The hard endocarp

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          In other words, by my understanding, peaches have a pit containing their seeds, but avocados just have a seed.

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            Do avocados not have a pit?

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              We call it that but the whole thing is just a big ol seed

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                But how is that any different than a peach? I’m so confused by this.

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                  Peach pits aren’t seeds, but they have a seed inside.

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                    Sick.

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              Looks like the endocarp in the avocado is imperceptible, whereas it is the hard pit in peaches and other drupes, per Wikipedia

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        Yeah this doesn’t make any sense

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        Wikipedia says some categorize avocadoes as drupes:

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berry_(botany)

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        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…

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      Ah yes, my favorite berry… the avocado.

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        I enjoy a good pumpkin berry. Fresh from the vine.

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      An apple sounds much less appealing when you describe it as an indecent (achoo) swollen receptacle tissue with a soft mesocarp…

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      Swollen receptacle tissue you say

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      Man I am glad I tasted fruit before I read this.

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      A pumpkin is a berry?!

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        I guess so? Which I suppose means all the other gourds/squash/melons/cucumbers are too

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      Pretty fruity

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