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WTF, a banana is a berry!!?
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What keeps a peach from being a single-seed berry or from an avocado being a drupe?
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Yeah this doesn't make any sense
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?
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.
Looks like the endocarp in the avocado is imperceptible, whereas it is the hard pit in peaches and other drupes, per Wikipedia
Wikipedia says some categorize avocadoes as drupes:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berry_(botany)
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...