• baconsunday@lemmy.zip
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    11 days ago

    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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      11 days 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…