And yet you insist the pulpy (not fleshy) fruit of a banana is a berry when
in fact it is not.

The classical definition of a drupe is that it is a one seeded berry.
Having a woody stone endocarp surrounding the seed has nothing at all to do
with the definition.
If the fruit has two seeds, it automatically becomes a berry by default.
So what about those plants that have fleshy fruit with 1 to 3 seeds in them?


P van Rijckevorsel wrote in message
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Avocado is a one-seeded berry.

Iris Cohen schreef
How does it differ from a drupe, like peaches and cherries?

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He just explained that. In avocado the tissue arising out of the carpel
that
is closest to the seed is fleshy. An avocado consists of exocarp, mesocarp
and seed.

In a drupe the seed is inside a 'stone' which means that the tissue
arising
out of the carpel closest to the seed is quite hard. A drupe consists of
exocarp, mesocarp, endocarp and seed.
PvR