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averruncusho:

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raginrayguns:

George Francis Atkinson - Botany for High Schools (1910):

Fig. 51. A. cross section of the stem of an oak tree thirty-seven years old, showing the annual rings. rm, the medullary rays; m, the pith (medulla). B, cross section of the stem of a palm tree, showing the scattered bundles.

banana tree: *slurred* hold my cocktail

Ripe pineapples, you can actually pluck the berry segments off, just like taking apart a raspberry.

There are 3 main types of fleshy fruit.

1) Simple Berries, like tomatoes and blueberries and cherries, in which the entire pericarp and accessory parts become succulent tissue

2) Aggregate Fruits, such as blackberries and strawberries, which form from a single flower with many pistils, each of which develops into a fruitlet. They’re still berries!

3) Multiple Fruits, such as pineapple and mulberry, which develop from a tight cluster of individual flowers each developing into a berry and fusing together during growth.

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Depending on how you want to categorize fruit you could also make a 4th section called

4) Accessory fruit - in which the edible fruit develops not from the flower’s ovary, but from the stem. Apples and pears are the most well known of these: the fleshy edible portion is swollen stem tissue and the true fruit is the central core.

The skin of the banana is also stem tissue, as is the rind of the pepo (berrylike fruit) of the squash, cucumber, and melon.