Not sure what to do when?

Monday 4 January 2010

When is a fruit not a fruit?

Answer - when it is a strawberry, raspberry, blackberry or rhubarb!


Fruits such as raspberries and blackberries are really bundles of tiny fruits clustered together. The raspberry has a hollow core so when you picked it is quite fragile. On the other hand blackberries have a sold core and are more robust fruits. Raspberries and blackberries are closely related and many hybrid berries have been created by crossing them and their offspring.



Each strawberry has on average 200 seeds. The part that we eat is technically not a fruit but a swollen stem and the things which look like seeds are all individual fruits each with a seed inside.


Although we refer to it as fruit, rhubarb isn't a fruit at all. It is an herbaceous perennial. We eat the stems of the rhubarb but it is considered to be a fruit as this is how it is generally used.

Choosing berries and rhubarb page is now completed on the website. Click here

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Very informative! Who knew? Happy 2010!

Sue Garrett said...

Happy 2010 to you too Nancy

Post a Comment

Thank you for visiting my blog and leaving a comment - it is great to know that there are people out there actually reading what I write! Come back soon. It would be great to receive some photos of your school plot to post on my website as an inspiration to others!
(By the way any comments just to promote a commercial site, or any comments not directly linked to the theme of my blog, will be deleted)