Re: Fruit or Vegetable
Strawberries are certainly fruits! The seeds are on the outside in the
little pits. Tim
At 02:47 AM 9/15/98 GMT, you wrote:
>
>>14/09/98 EDT, you wrote:
>>A pumkin is a fruit,
>>Any thing that has seeds in it is a fruit, anything that doesn't have
seeds in
>>it is a vegtable,
>
>>On Mon, 14 Sep 1998 Keith wrote:
>>That makes a strawberry a vegatable!
>
>It gets a little more involved than that.
>
>In the botanical sense, a fruit is the ripened ovary and the seeds
>within OR upon it, together with other parts of the flower that
>usually change significantly in the process of ripening. So a Pumpkin
>is definitely a fruit.
>
>In that case a strawberry could be considered a fruit but, it is
>correctly called a Receptical (watch one as it develops from a flower
>sometime) in which the true fruits are actually all the small achenes
>(a dry one seeded fruit that does not split) incorrectly called seeds
>on the surface of the receptical.
>
>A pumpkin is actually a Berry, a hard fleshy or pulpy fruit that does
>not (for this definition) split, has few or many seeds but no stone
>and usually but not always has a hard rind. Other true berries are
>blueberry, grape, cucumber, tomato and eggplant.
>
>Fleshy one seeded stone fruits like peaches, cherries and olives are
>called Drupes.
>
>Raspberry and Blackberry etc. are not actually berries but Drupelets
>(a little drupe, often one of many).
>
>Of course common usage of the names throws all this out the window but
>these are the correct botanical definitions as I understand them.
>
>Now go and enjoy a nice drupe and receptical salad as you watch your
>900 pound berries grow!
>
>Brian
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