Is banana a berry or is it there just for scale?
yup https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berry_(botany)
a berry is a fleshy fruit without a stone (pit) produced from a single flower containing one ovary. Berries so defined include grapes, currants, and tomatoes, as well as cucumbers, eggplants (aubergines) and bananas, but exclude certain fruits that meet the culinary definition of berries, such as strawberries and raspberries.
Botany should not have borrowed the word berry.
I am of the opinion that “a small, sweet, edible fruit” is closer to the right definition for the word, and that botanists’ decision to appropriate the word for a redefined purpose was inappropriate and unnecessary.
When did this all occur? Was berry a word for things like strawberries before and then it was chosen by botanists to meet another definition?
Sounds to me like we need a new definition for berry.
You mean Scaleberry?
That’s ok accessory fruit club is pretty cool. I always preferred drupe club though.
drupe group
Droop snoot
Why are there no comments on this! It’s hilarious
They hated tomato for he spoke the truth
I see two comments :P
okay but whats with the bulge in the paper on panel 3…
I think that’s the top part of the paper bent backwards a bit casting a shadow
Its “accessory.”
It is “accessory.”
Thanks, autocorrect.
The worst kind of correct.
rageboner
The taxonomy in biology can be really confusing. Potatoes (only their fruits), peppers, cucumbers, eggplants, avocados, lemons, oranges, kiwifruit and papayas are also in the berry club.
Potatoes are tubers, I don’t think they fit the botanical definition of a fruit. They contain no seeds, for example.
The rest are though. Pumpkins was the one that always blew my mind.
The potato plant poisonous fruit is a berry though.
The most forbidden Vodka…
You are correct, but the potato plant bears potato fruits, which are classified as berries. I will clarify that in my comment.
I hope you mean the taxonomy in botany, things are much clearer on the zoological side
Well, I’m not a biologist and even all my houseplants are constantly dying. For me, biology as a whole is confusing.
Here’s the thing…
This is nuts!
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I heard the seeds on the outside of the strawberry are berries.
That’s nuts!
But not peanuts, they’re actually legumes :(
I wonder if they’d consider Chuck eligible, though. He was undeniably a human but also a Berry.
TIL banana is a berry! 🤯
Haha lol
would bananas being seedless mean that they are also not berries?
Bananas have seeds. We’ve just bred them for hundreds of generations so the seeds are small and so soft you don’t even notice them.
Bananas have seeds, they’re just incredibly degenerated in commercial bananas. Next time you have one, break off a chunk and count the black specks inside. Each one would’ve been a seed if not for generations of human intervention.
Here’s a website with a picture of a banana with seeds
The definition of a berry doesn’t make sense then.
There are multiple definitions for berry
Wow… my life was a lie
