What Exactly Are The Small Seeds On A Strawberry

You know, there is a plant that we often eat, but what we eat is not its fruit, but its receptacle. What is this plant?

It's strawberries. Since the receptacle is not the fruit of strawberry, what is the real fruit of strawberry? The real fruit of strawberry is the small seed that looks like sesame, one by one. What's going on here?

It starts with the flowers of plants. The structure of flowers is very complicated. Include stamen, pistil, receptacle, and so on. The receptacle generally grows at the bottom of the flower, and the stamens and petals generally grow above the receptacle. Different plants have different receptacle shapes. You can look at the picture below and look for the strawberry receptacle.

This receptacle of strawberry will grow slowly and expand constantly, and finally become the red strawberry we eat. Because it is formed by the expansion of the receptacle, it is not real fruit, so we also call it "fake fruit".

So, where is the real fruit of strawberry? The fruit of strawberry is developed from pistil on the strawberry receptacle, and will eventually become small seeds like sesame seeds on strawberry skin. This is the real fruit of strawberries. Because there are too many small seeds, the torus of the strawberry can only be swollen and enlarged to cover them all.

Fruits like strawberries also have a special name in biology, called aggregate fruit, which can be understood as the meaning that many fruits get together.

Now you know, the small seeds on strawberries are the real fruits of strawberries.