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[-] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago

Definitely interesting. I wonder if there might also be a little bit to the fact that botanical fruits are basically just the best way to house seeds so that they'll have some energy to grow when planted, which means that it's independently evolved in a lot of different plants; so the culinary diversity of "fruits" is much greater.

[-] merc@sh.itjust.works 4 points 6 days ago

Yeah, that seems likely to me too. Especially because some fruits are designed to appeal to animals who will eat the fruit and then poop out the seeds somewhere, and different fruits will appeal to different animals. A fruit "designed" to be spread by birds will be different to one "designed" to be spread by a hippo.

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