The taxonomy in biology can be really confusing. Potatoes (only their fruits), peppers, cucumbers, eggplants, avocados, lemons, oranges, kiwifruit and papayas are also in the berry club.

[–] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 23 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Potatoes are tubers, I don't think they fit the botanical definition of a fruit. They contain no seeds, for example.

The rest are though. Pumpkins was the one that always blew my mind.

[–] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The potato plant poisonous fruit is a berry though.

[–] Blastasaurus@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

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[–] brennesel@feddit.de 5 points 1 year ago

You are correct, but the potato plant bears potato fruits, which are classified as berries. I will clarify that in my comment.

[–] Mothra@mander.xyz 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I hope you mean the taxonomy in botany, things are much clearer on the zoological side

[–] Klear@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Here's the thing...

[–] brennesel@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

Well, I'm not a biologist and even all my houseplants are constantly dying. For me, biology as a whole is confusing.