Did you know that these are fruits?!
Did you know that these are fruits?
Cucumber, squash, tomato, green beans.
Is it true that if they have seeds it's a fruit?
Answers:
1) Definition of fruit -The term fruit has different meanings depending on context.
In botany, a fruit is the ripened ovary—together with seeds—of a flowering plant. In many species, the fruit incorporates the ripened ovary and surrounding tissues. Fruits are the means by which flowering plants disseminate seeds.
Now see pictures of a flower to understand what is an ovary and seeds /ovules.- click on the links below--
http://www.ncsu.edu/project/agronauts/im...
http://ils.unc.edu/parkproject/harp/cour...
http://www.mhhe.com/biosci/pae/botany/bo...
2 ) Definition of vegetable --Vegetable is a culinary term which generally refers to an edible part of a plant.
The definition is traditional rather than scientific and is somewhat arbitrary and subjective.
All parts of herbaceous plants eaten as food by humans, whole or in part, are normally considered vegetables.
Mushrooms, though belonging to the biological kingdom fungi, are also commonly considered vegetables.
3 ) Tomato is fruit or vegetable - It is both --
Since “vegetable” is not a botanical term, there is no contradiction in referring to a plant part as a fruit while also being considered a vegetable (see diagram, click the link below).
Given this general rule of thumb, vegetables can also include leaves (lettuce), stems (asparagus), roots (carrots), flowers (broccoli), bulbs (garlic), seeds (peas and beans) and botanical fruits such as cucumbers, squash, pumpkins, and capsicums.
Botanically, fruits are reproductive organs (ripened ovaries containing one or many seeds), while vegetables are vegetative organs which sustain the plant.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/image:fruit...
Source(s):
Botanist from wikipedia