tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2240168782260797289.post9060272453832966221..comments2024-01-04T03:17:16.377-07:00Comments on Green Fork Utah: Plant Anatomy 101: StrawberriesGreen Forkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11246358800941109479noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2240168782260797289.post-55060347354082155862010-02-05T08:12:34.185-07:002010-02-05T08:12:34.185-07:00Nice to see a post to get people thinking about th...Nice to see a post to get people thinking about the foods they eat every day. I would like to point out, however, that raspberries and blackberries are indeed aggregate fruits: they are aggregates of drupelets (achenes do not define a fruit as either aggregate or not). You can think of a raspberry as a miniature collection of cherries (which are also drupes or stone fruits and also members of the Rose family). Also, mulberries, pineapples and figs, for example, are multiple fruits: they result from clusters of flowers that have matured into fruit and fused together, appearing to us as a single fruit. Something else that needs correcting is that the red fleshy part of the strawberry isn't a stamen in origin but the swollen bit of the flower called the receptacle, which is the bit of the flower into which the female parts, the pistils, attach. The tiny achenes that dot the surface of the swollen receptacle are, in fact, the former flower's ripened ovaries that contain the seeds.Ms Violahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03807868185023699547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2240168782260797289.post-35293785592091371922008-10-03T09:52:00.000-06:002008-10-03T09:52:00.000-06:00Wow! What great links! Thanks for your input. I ...Wow! What great links! Thanks for your input. I had no idea that there were 600 different species of strawberry. I also wanted to mention in this post that strawberries are in the same family as roses, Rosaceae.Nicolehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14218041404326256752noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2240168782260797289.post-49328668230265219812008-10-02T14:17:00.000-06:002008-10-02T14:17:00.000-06:00Three other links with interesting strawberry scie...Three other links with interesting strawberry science facts<BR/><BR/>http://www.berrydoctor.com/broadcast/2007/strawberries08.htm<BR/><BR/>http://www.berrydoctor.com/broadcast/2007/strawberries1.htm<BR/><BR/>http://www.berrydoctor.com/broadcast/2007/strawberries2.htmPMGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18138136524417315753noreply@blogger.com