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Quilotoa @lemmy.ca

5d ago

TIL the little things on strawberries are actually the fruit. What you eat is receptacle tissue.

www.iflscience.com Those White Dots On Strawberries Aren’t Strawberry Seeds

This taxonomic rollercoaster is berry confusing.

Those White Dots On Strawberries Aren’t Strawberry Seeds

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Aren’t we all just receptacle tissue.

What little things on strawberries?
https://i.imgur.com/YGdSuKB.jpeg
- Someone has a lot of time on their hands.
  
  And strawberry fruits
  
  Had*
  😅 Now, they're left with only their choices of how it was spent.
- At first glance, I thought this was one of those macrolens images with army men

“each containing a single seed inside”
Aka, those are the seeds.
- A peach contains a single seed but you don't call the whole thing a seed. The pips of a strawberry are called "achenes" which is a type of dry fruit. It doesn't matter at all for general use but it is botanically significant.
  
  An apple contains many seeds, but you don't call each seed a fruit.
  I mean, I knew a strawberry wasn't a berry, but your counterexample was completely irrelevant.
  Edit:
  \ When people downvote but nobody responds, I have no idea what people are downvoting about.
  \ Nothing I said was inaccurate, and it illustrated why their example was inapplicable, so what do downvotes mean here?

These are strange times for the berry club. Strange times...
- This one lives in my head rent free! 🤣
- Accessory fruit?? What the hell is that?! What am I?!

Strawberries are a type of berry. They go in a fruit salad, so they're fruit. Deep in your heart, you know this. Do not believe everything you read on the Internet.
- It’s just about which taxonomy (i.e., context) one chooses to use.
  Botanically, tomatoes are fruits. But according to culinary taxonomy they’re vegetables (they don’t belong in a fruit salad).
  
  It's often repeated, but I love the distinction between knowledge and wisdom based on this fact.
  Knowledge is to know tomato is a fruit; wisdom is to not put it in a fruit salad.
  
  Botanic science is correct (in this, at least ^FFS), whereas "culinary" taxonomy followed import law that was altered to dodge tariffs... They are not the same. 😅
  
  The video “Tomatoes, or How Not To Define Art” (by Ian Danskin, who also does The Alt-Right Playbook) presents this very well: https://youtu.be/XmxIK9p0SNM

The red part is the cum and the wee seeds are the sperms. Kewl.
- How do I delete someone else's comment?
- Cum is sperm.
  
  cum the whole ejaculate, semen and sperm

I think the seeds are technically classified as nuts.
- It's a little arbitrary but the thickness of the pericarp (shell/husk) is the key difference between a nut and an achene. Strawberries have achenes.
  
  Today I learned! Thanks!

wait, you don't eat the little things?
- Of course not
  \

That's why my local Dairy Queen is starting to sell receptacle tissue milkshakes.

Science has gone too far

Made up my mind, make a new start; Goin to California with an achene in my heart

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