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An apple sounds much less appealing when you describe it as an indecent (achoo) swollen receptacle tissue with a soft mesocarp...
Ah yes, my favorite berry... the avocado.
I enjoy a good pumpkin berry. Fresh from the vine.
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?
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...
The hard endocarp
In other words, by my understanding, peaches have a pit containing their seeds, but avocados just have a seed.
Do avocados not have a pit?
Looks like the endocarp in the avocado is imperceptible, whereas it is the hard pit in peaches and other drupes, per Wikipedia
We call it that but the whole thing is just a big ol seed
But how is that any different than a peach? I’m so confused by this.
Peach pits aren't seeds, but they have a seed inside.
Sick.
Yeah this doesn't make any sense
Wikipedia says some categorize avocadoes as drupes:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berry_(botany)
Man I am glad I tasted fruit before I read this.
A pumpkin is a berry?!
I guess so? Which I suppose means all the other gourds/squash/melons/cucumbers are too
Swollen receptacle tissue you say
Pretty fruity