when you realize strawberries aren’t berries but bananas are and you’ve been lied to your whole life. yet again
Raspberries aren’t either. But kiwi and pumpkin are. 😑
Why must y’all do this, let me live in ignorance
^ literally
Also, watermelon is not a fruit. Its actually a vegetable. It belongs in the cucumber and squash family
I am so tired
I have learned Too Much
Pumpkin isn’t a squash?
Okay I’m intruding bc I am a Botanist and I am Upset:
Bananas are berries: confirmed. Strawberries not actually berries: confirmed. They are aggregates of achenes on a fleshy receptacle. Raspberries aren’t berries: not entirely. Aggregates of drupes (single-seeded berries). Kiwis are berries: confirmed. Pumpkins are berries: false! They are pepos, diagnostic of their family, the Cucurbitaceae. Watermelon is not a fruit: SUPER FALSE. They contain seeds, they are fruit. They are also pepos and are related closely to pumpkins. Squashes, gourds, cucumbers, melons, pumpkins are all fruits, all pepos, all in the Cucurbitaceae.
I’m less upset now bye
plant geek tumblr has saved us all
today i learned ‘pepo’ is a word and cant stop saying it
If it is a part of a plant that contains seeds, it is a fruit.
ok so im gonna preface this by saying that botanists debate who the real smolest tree boi is. like, to judge a smol tree boi u gotta first decide what a tree boi is, and we dont have an official definition??? the closest u can find is the idea that a tree is a plant that gets secondary growth each year so like. if it got rings when u cut it open, its a tree, and if it only has vegetative growth (think banana trees) its not technically a tree. but then like is a shrub a tree?? are all woody plants trees????? is a shrub different from a bush???? we just dont know man we literally dont. we havent decided yet its a mystery. things that real botanists have decided on:
but anyway yeah so just to clear things up we’re gonna use the definition outlined in the book “Elsevier’s dictionary of forestry” published in 2004, which defines that if a woody perennial that got leaf is 3 meters tall (9.84 feet), he a tree, and if its less its a shrub. so in that case, the smolest tree possible is a tree that is exactly 9.84 feet tall at maturity. which can be a lot of things.
now, if we’re talking about the smolest shrub, then the botany community has identified a theoretical smol bab that isnt officially a tree but might be depending on who you take the tree definition from?????
this is Salix herbacea (dwarf willow), a very, very smol willow species adapted to arctic environments. usually it only gets about 1-6 cm tall. they stretch out and sometimes form older trunks when they crawl that make them look a liiiittle bit more like a conventional tree that just oozed everywhere like (x) (x) (pic is public domain)
whoa careful dont get lost in the forest
he crawl but he also grow tol u feel
so there is the smolest tree boi depending on who u ask
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