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Botanists please help, can you identify what type of fruit are each of the following?
turnip
Mexican potato/jicama
eggplant
winged beans
string beans
edible pots
lima beans
white melon
loofah
gourd
white pumpkin
squash
radish
mustard
onion
tomato
garlic
ginger
sesame
(ex. drupe, berry, pod, legume)
thank you very much
I know that the edible parts of some of those plants are not fruit. . but I wonder if they also bear fruits, maybe, but not edible. . please help. . . thank you
3 Answers
- 1 decade agoFavorite Answer
ok i looked over that first answer and i KNOW FOR A FACT the person is wrong. gourds and pumpkins as false berries... omg
i need to find a paper to help with the right answers but dont use that guys
ok...
beans - legumes... always
now i dont know what a white melon is but gourds, pumpkins, squash, watermelons.... all pepos.....
- Anonymous1 decade ago
turnip - not a fruit, but an incrassate taproot (root vegetable)
Mexican potato/jicama - not a fruit, but a tuberous root
eggplant - aka aubergine, a berry
winged beans - legume (from a pod)
string beans - a pod
edible pots - did you mean pods?
lima beans - a legume
white melon - a false berry
loofah - false berry
gourd - false berry
white pumpkin - false berry
squash - false berry
radish - not a fruit, but an incrassate taproot (root vegetable)
mustard - cultivated for its edible seeds and leaves
onion - not a fruit, but a bulb
tomato - a berry
garlic - not a fruit, but a bulb
ginger - not a fruit, but a rhizome
sesame - edible seeds
- ?Lv 71 decade ago
I am not a botanist but the first two questions are tuberous roots. An eggplant is the first fruit listed because it grows from a flower as well of most of the others. If it comes from a flower then it is a fruit.