How Many Fruits Are in This Post?

berries, while strawberries are not!

Strawberries are Accessory Fruits: If you look closely at a strawberry, the yellow dots on the outside are actually the plant’s true fruits (called achenes), and each one contains a tiny seed.

The red fleshy part we love to eat is just swollen stem tissue.

Pineapples are Multiple Fruits: A pineapple is not just one fruit. It is a large cluster of dozens of individual berries that grew from a cluster of flowers and fused together around a central core.

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