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Fruit Sisters roll call
hedgie:
Commonly called one, but nope. They're a mass of inverted flowers, or "false fruit".
Gyrre:
I knew I'd be learning some new botany with this thread, but I didn't expect to learn terms like "false fruit".
cesium133:
I think we may be nitpicking a bit too much here... in fact, I'll add to it by noting that Wikipedia begins its article on false fruits with: "An accessory fruit (sometimes called false fruit, spurious fruit, pseudofruit, or pseudocarp) is a fruit in which..." (emphasis mine).
Mr_Rose:
Given that we seem to have already accepted apples, which are another kind of ‘false fruit’, I figure dates, pears, mulberries, etc. are fine too.
Scarlet Manuka:
--- Quote from: cesium133 on 04 Aug 2019, 08:06 ---sometimes called false fruit, spurious fruit, pseudofruit, or pseudocarp
--- End quote ---
"Pseudocarp" sounds like it should be a kind of false fish, instead.
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