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WEIRD FACT: Strawberries, as you know them, are not actual berries.

According to botanists, a ‘berry’ is “a fleshy fruit produced from a single ovary”. Strawberries, however, are an example of an “aggregate fruit”, forming from a flower that has many ovaries. After pollination, each “ovary” eventually develops and ripens into a strawberry.

We pretty much use ‘berry’ for any teeny, tiny edible fruit, but that’s not correct. If we were to go by definition alone, many of the fruits we take for granted as non-berries would in fact be berries. That includes bananas, tomatoes, and watermelons.

Hmmm….