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The AFU and Urban Legend Archive Science tomatoes are berries
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The AFU and Urban Legend Archive Science tomatoes are berries
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From: don.freeman@idcbbs.com (Don Freeman)
Subject: alt.folklore.urban Frequ
Date: 1 Jun 93 21:20:00 GMT
re: FAQ...
TC>Tb.Tomatoes are not vegetables, they're berries. [Thanks, Scott C.]
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I don't know if this will help in classifying it as 100% true as opposed
to "believed to be true" but:
"How to Identify Plants" by H.D. Harrington (Professor of Botany & Curator of the Herbarium, Colorado State University), a very well done and reliable text on plant identification and classification defines a berry as such:
"A fleshy fruit formed from one compound ovary containing few to many seeds. This fruit appears in the key as formed from a superior ovary, however, the term is often loosely used to include pulpy fruits formed from an inferior ovary but not resembling a pepo or pome."
The book also explicitly uses the tomato as an example of a berry.
-Don Freeman
P.S. Pepo is the term used to describe fruit such as watermelon & cucumber and Pome is the type of fruit that an apple is.
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