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Fun fact: Strawberry is called an accessory fruit because its seeds are on the outside, so the seeds themselves are the real "fruits" (in the same way each grain of rice or wheat is itself a fruit, well technically the fruit consists of the grain plus the outer pod/husk that gets removed when harvested). The red flesh we like to eat is the accessory fruit because it in itself does not contain seeds.
Raspberries and blackberries are called aggregate fruits because they're essentially many fruits attached together as a single structure. Actually, a strawberry is called an aggregate accessory fruit because it has many "fruits" directly attached to an accessory structure.
If every Uni professor started each lecture with "fun fact: " I bet I'd learn alot more
Some of my profs did! I had one class where the prof would have optional "bonus content" not in the syllabus as a further incentive for people to come to class instead of just reading the lecture slides later.
Great explanation thank you! Interesting facts :)
So bananas are aggregate fruits?
No, bananas are berries.
So aggregates are whole different class of fruit?! I thought it would have been a subcategory
Yeah. If university bio has taught me anything it's that botany classifications are way more numerous, way more complex, and have way more exceptions than zoology classifications (not to undermine zoology of course, it's also super complicated). There's just far more diversity in how different plants accomplish the same things compared to how different animals accomplish them, which makes sense since plants are quite a bit older than animals and also have way more species.