AnswersDriveThe banana fruit is a seedless, parthenocarpic berry developing without pollination and fertilization. In the pomegranate, the edible part is the fleshy layer (aril) around each seed. For photos of many of these berries, look them up by their common name in the Wayne's Word Index.
Is a banana a herb a fruit or a berry?
Is a banana a fruit or a herb? Both. The banana plant is called a 'banana tree' in popular use, but it's technically regarded as a herbaceous plant (or 'herb'), not a tree, because the stem does not contain true woody tissue.
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Can a dog eat a banana?
Dogs can eat bananas in moderation. Bananas are a good source of potassium, manganese, vitamin B6, vitamin C, fiber, biotin and copper. Bananas are low in sodium and cholesterol, but due to the sugar content in bananas, dogs should only eat them as a treat, and not as a regular part of their diets.
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What does a tamato Berry do?
A berry to be consumed by Pokémon. Using it on a Pokémon makes it more friendly but lowers its base Speed. Makes Pokémon more friendly but lowers its base Speed stat. The Tamato Berry is a very spicy berry used for making PokéBlocks and Poffins.
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What kind of fruit is a mango?
Mangoes are juicy stone fruit (drupe) from numerous species of tropical trees belonging to the flowering plant genus Mangifera, cultivated mostly for their edible fruit. The majority of these species are found in nature as wild mangoes. The genus belongs to the cashew family Anacardiaceae.
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What kind of fruit is a kiwi fruit?
A Berry is a single fleshy fruit without a stone, usually containing a number of seeds. This is a Kiwi Fruit (Actinidia chinensis). Other fruits of this type are: Banana (Musa), Coffee (Coffea arabica), Currant (Ribes), Pasionfruit (Passiflora), Pepper (Capsicum), Tomato (Lycopersicon esculentus).
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Is a papaya a berry?
grape, tomato, papaya, pomegranate, sapote, persimmon, guava, banana and avocado. The latter two fruits are often termed baccate (berry-like). The banana fruit is a seedless, parthenocarpic berry developing without pollination and fertilization. The papaya (Carica) is a pepo because of its thick outer rind.
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What kind of fruit is a grape?
A grape is a fruit, botanically a berry, of the deciduous woody vines of the flowering plant genus Vitis. Grapes can be eaten fresh as table grapes or they can be used for making wine, jam, juice, jelly, grape seed extract, raisins, vinegar, and grape seed oil.
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Are blackberries an aggregate fruit?
Aggregate fruits are special because they form from multiple ovaries in the same flower. The result is tiny fruitlets fused together around a receptacle to form an entire fruit. Raspberries, blackberries, and strawberries are examples of aggregate fruit.
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What are the yellow berries called?
Things get a little confusing here: there are two completely different berries called gooseberries. First are the Eurasian berries: tiny, translucent, super-tart green, rosy, or red berries reminiscent of currants. But there's also Physalis peruviana, sometimes called Cape Gooseberry, which is a South American fruit.
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Do bananas have seeds in them?
Wild bananas have large hard seeds, but over time bananas cultivated by humans have been bred to have smaller and smaller seeds. A modern domesticated banana has tiny, infertile black specks where the seeds used to be.
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Is the pomegranate a berry?
Pomegranate (Punica granatum), showing persistent calyx at the top of fruit. The calyx is cut away on right fruit to show the numerous stamens. The fruit is technically a leathery-skinned berry containing many seeds, each surrounded by a juicy, fleshy aril. The pomegranate tree is native to Africa and the Near East.
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What kind of a fruit is a cucumber?
The cucumber, pumpkin and watermelon are good examples of the pepo type of fruit. Below the rind, the the rest of the ovary wall is soft and fleshy. In the photographs above seeds fill the locule of each carpel. If a fruit is fleshy and it has a hard stony pit containing a seed it is classified as a drupe.
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What kind of fruit is an apple?
The endocarp forms a leathery or stony case around the seed, and corresponds to what is commonly called the core. Pome-type fruit with stony rather than leathery endocarp may be called a polypyrenous drupe.
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Is an avocado a fruit?
You might be inclined to call it a vegetable, thanks to its green hue and savory taste, but the avocado is technically a fruit, and even more specifically, a single-seeded berry. A fruit is “the matured ovary of a flower,” according to University of California Agriculture & Natural Resources.
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What kind of fruit is a lime?
A lime (from French lime, from Arabic līma, from Persian līmū, "lemon") is a hybrid citrus fruit, which is typically round, lime green, 3–6 centimetres (1.2–2.4 in) in diameter, and contains acidic juice vesicles.
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Is a banana a fruit?
Both. A banana (the yellow thing you peel and eat) is undoubtedly a fruit (containing the seeds of the plant: see 'Is a tomato a fruit or a vegetable?), though since commercially grown banana plants are sterile, the seeds are reduced to little specks.
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Is an apple a simple fruit?
The pome fruits of the family Rosaceae, (including apples, pears, rosehips, and saskatoon berry) are a syncarpous fleshy fruit, a simple fruit, developing from a half-inferior ovary.
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Is a pineapple a berry?
The pineapple (Ananas comosus) is a tropical plant with an edible multiple fruit consisting of coalesced berries, also called pineapples, and the most economically significant plant in the family Bromeliaceae.
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Is a strawberry a fruit or a nut?
No. Nuts are hard-shelled pods containing the fruit/seed and that don't open to release the seed. Berries have seeds inside the fruit, and strawberries don't. Strawberries are an technically an aggregate accessory fruit as Wikipedia says.
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Are Watermelons a berry?
Strawberries are not really berries, but watermelon, pumpkins, bananas, and avocados are. It's ok. Take a few deep breaths. While we've tended to define berries as any small edible fruit, the official definition of a berry is "a fleshy fruit produced from a single ovary."
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What kind of fruit is a cherry?
A cherry is the fruit of many plants of the genus Prunus, and is a fleshy drupe (stone fruit). The cherry fruits of commerce usually are obtained from cultivars of a limited number of species such as the sweet cherry (Prunus avium) and the sour cherry (Prunus cerasus).