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WTF, a banana is a berry!!? (lemmy.world)
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[–] 46 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (4 children)

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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  • [–] 17 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    The hard endocarp

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Do avocados not have a pit?

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  • [–] 11 points 5 months ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago

    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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