Passion fruit and dragon fruit (hexbear.net)

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[-] BobDole@hexbear.net 27 points 2 weeks ago

Smh potato’s are tubers not fruits

[-] rhubarb@hexbear.net 29 points 2 weeks ago

They are round, tasty parts of a plant, that's a fruit if I've ever seen one

[-] plant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 2 weeks ago

Stop tuber erasure

[-] BobDole@hexbear.net 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

nerd The definition of fruit is that they bear seeds. It is a biological classification, not a culinary one (like vegetable). Tubers and rhizomes do not bear seeds and are therefore not fruits. You can grow a plant from them, but you can do that with cuttings and those aren’t fruit either. Culinarily, a potato is a vegetable or starch, and still not a fruit.