Technically the hard stuff is part of the fruit, and the actual seed is
inside the hard stuff

Remember, this is a layman who did not know how to do a Google search to get
that far.

Iris,
Central NY, Zone 5a, Sunset Zone 40
"If we see light at the end of the tunnel, It's the light of the oncoming
train."
Robert Lowell (1917-1977)