Showing posts with label flowers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label flowers. Show all posts

2.07.2011

5.06.2010

Fruit or Vegetable?


We've all heard someone say this at one point..."Did you know that a tomato is really a fruit?" Botanically speaking, tomatoes are indeed fruit, as well as, cucumbers, peppers, and anything with seeds inside it.

A broad definition from Wikipedia: a fruit is a structure of a plant that contains its seeds.

The fleshy part is a trick to encourage animals (including us) to eat seeds and in-turn disperse them. You know, the plant kingdom has to survive somehow.

So what exactly is a "vegetable"? Check in tomorrow.

7.10.2009

Pears and Flowers

It's been a really busy week, so I just had to end it with a couple of pears.