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RE: Myth or Fact? #33 – Strawberries are Nuts!

in #science7 years ago

People who are not familiar with botany have developed their own stereotypes regarding various plant species. It is accepted to divide all plants into different groups according to certain external features. For example, nuts are something solid, with a shell, and berries are something juicy, soft, sweet and most likely red. But botanists look at plants from a completely different angle. For them, the nut and the berry are just the types of the fruit of the plants, which differ according to signs completely ignorant to ordinary people. And as a result, it turns out that strawberries have a type of fruit, which for a number of characteristics actually refers to nuts, not berries.

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Totally agree with you, great summary. I guess in our daily life it would be better to call them berries unless you want people to look askance at you