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Strawberries are nuts 🍓 (mander.xyz)

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (10 children)

Like cashews!

I thought nuts had to come from trees, though.

Like, peanuts aren't actually nuts.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Sorry if I'm misunderstanding your post, but cashews are drupes, not nuts. I don't know whether all true nuts come from trees, but all the ones I can think of do.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

If strawberries are nuts, cashews are nuts. It's a seed that grows on the outside of an accessory fruit.

Obviously strawberries aren't nuts either but we're playing pretty fast and loose with words and meanings.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The "nut" from a cashew is the seed a stone fruit (like the center of a peach pit). The strawberry "seed" is the entire fruit.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I don't see why the apple from a cashew can't also be classified as an aggregate accessory fruit, like the red flesh of the strawberry, which would make the cashew pit an achene like the seeds of a strawberry.

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