Thursday, September 4, 2008

OLERICULTURE 101

Six Vegetables That Are Really Fruits

Cucumbers

Eggplant

Tomatoes

Squash

Okra

Pumpkins





2 comments:

Daisy said...

I have been thinking and thinking about this. If a "vegetable" has seeds, does that make it a fruit? I think an avocado might be a fruit, too.

The Man Under the Mango Tree said...

Yes, you're right, fruits in which all of or most of the fruit wall is fleshy at maturity are classified as simple fleshy fruits. They are further classified as berries, drupes, false berries, and pomes. The entire ovary wall of the berry ripens into a fleshy, usually edible pericarp i.e. fruits of the tomato, grape, date, aubergine (eggplant), AVOCADO, and red pepper.