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[–] baconsunday@lemmy.zip 41 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (4 children)

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?

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 3 points 8 hours 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...

[–] Ioughttamow@fedia.io 14 points 12 hours ago (1 children)
[–] 5765313496@lemmy.world 3 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

In other words, by my understanding, peaches have a pit containing their seeds, but avocados just have a seed.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 2 points 9 hours ago (2 children)
[–] Ioughttamow@fedia.io 1 points 5 hours ago

Looks like the endocarp in the avocado is imperceptible, whereas it is the hard pit in peaches and other drupes, per Wikipedia

[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 7 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

We call it that but the whole thing is just a big ol seed

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 2 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

But how is that any different than a peach? I’m so confused by this.

[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 7 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Peach pits aren't seeds, but they have a seed inside.

[–] kn33@lemmy.world 16 points 12 hours ago

Yeah this doesn't make any sense

[–] exasperation@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 10 hours ago

Wikipedia says some categorize avocadoes as drupes:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berry_(botany)