I just heard that strawberries are technically not a fruit. What are they, and why aren't they a fruit?

The strawberry plant, genus Fragaria, is a member of the rose family. Strawberries are not technically fruit, but pseudocarps (also known as false fruit or accessory fruit). A pseudocarp is a fruitlike structure consisting of tissue that is not derived from the ovary wall. The true fruits of the strawberry plant are actually the small seeds (achenes) found on the outer surface

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Strawberry

They come from a pollinated flower and contain the seeds much like a tomato or raspberry. This is to entice critters to eat, enjoy and disperse. So nit picking about the exactitude of structure or terminology is rather moot. Just shut up and eat your fruit! And vegetables too, even if many of them are really fruits.

Elizabeth H is correct. When you eat a strawberry, you are eating fruits, but the part you are really interested in is the red, fleshy, expanded receptacle. A receptacle is the end of the stem on which the flower (and later the fruit) is borne. The fruits are the little seed-like specks on the surface. Each one of these little things contains a seed surrounded by (and fused to) the ovary wall, making it a fruit.

Normally i would just say fruit, but i think both. I like the sugariness of the fruits but i love the essence and kick the vegetables bring

Technically it is not a fruit but a false fruit, meaning the fleshy part is derived not from the plant’s ovaries (achenes) but from the peg at the bottom of the bowl-shaped hypanthium

(a floral structure consisting of the bases of the sepals, petals, and stamens fused together.) that holds the ovaries.

Source(s): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strawberry

Big Bang Theory?

The seeds on the surface are the actual “fruit” of the strawberry.

This is the first I’ve heard of it…that guy ^ ^ ^ got it.

strawberries are fruits because they have seeds.

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