Is pumpkin fruit?

[Answa]

Also, this...

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Does_a_ban...ify_as_a_berry

How about this one?

[Deltara]

And i made it to 50 posts! Yes!

I'd like to thank all fruits and vegetables, bananas and other berries for making this possible.

[Rane]

So, it's weird that ants drop pumpkins. But then again, ants can carry many times their body weight, and the ants in XIV are really big ants, so I guess they could carry around a lot of those pumpkins. The question is, where did they get them, and why do they love pumpkins so much? Is this some kind of insidious plot? Are the ants planning on summoning some kind of great pumpkin primal? Maybe on Halloween? Ooh, spooky.

[Rokien]

That would be amazing O.o

[Gramul]

So, it's weird that ants drop pumpkins. But then again, ants can carry many times their body weight, and the ants in XIV are really big ants, so I guess they could carry around a lot of those pumpkins.

Both Bill Nye and The Magic School Bus have ruined this for me with their damn science and facts.

[weeble]

think pumpkin is in the squash family. on a weird note i love eating pumpkin alot. outside the obvious pumpkin pie, i make it into a soup and also fry it.. very yums. think people to used to the thought they are just for decorations outside on Halloween lol. taste way better then real squash to me.

[Magnesium02]

From what I recall, a fruit is a plant part that develops from a fertilised flower and contains seeds held within some kind of pulp/flesh. In terms of human reproduction, a fruit is basically a plant placenta, meant to provide moisture and nutrients for the seeds to germinate and grow into plants. Some fruits have additional properties in the cases where the seeds require specific conditions to grow (i.e. they attract a certain kind of bird who eats the fruit and emits the seeds in a far off location, or they attract other animals to feed on them as the seed cases require the digestive acids of that creature to weaken the shell so the seed can grow).

Fruits are then sub-classed into different groups. The most common fruits are berries, which are defined as fruits usually containing more than one seed contained in flesh derived form a single flower ovary. So apples, watermelon, tomatoes and pumkpkins are all berries. Stone fruits like plums, peaches and mangos that contain only one seed are a sub-class of berry. Citris also fall into a sub-class due to something about having a thick indedible skin. Blueberries and gooseberries are berries, but a lot of the other fruits that we call berries aren't berries. Things like raspberries, blackberries and mullberries are actually a different kind of fruit as they consists of lots of seeds held singly within pockets of juice grouped together to make the fruit. Then there are 'false' berries like bananas and strawberries. Strawberries are not normal berries, nor are they fruits like blackberries as they contain the 'seeds' on the outside. Normally a fruit is made when the ovary inside the flower is fertilised with pollen and each ovary makes one fruit. With a strawberry what we take for seeds on the outside are atually the plants ovaries each one containing a seed. It is a fruit, just kind of in its own class. The banana is also a unique berry sometimes called a false berry depending on how you class fruits as they don't grow from a tree or vine, but a herb, and its flowering/ovary structure is different to standard fruit flowers.


... FML. Why the hell do i remember all this random junk that has no use, but my memory fails me when it comes to simple everyday things.

[Mirana]

eh??? for real??? are you kidding me??? Isn't pumpkin a vegetable?

[Eruantien]

eh??? for real??? are you kidding me??? Isn't pumpkin a vegetable?

just as much as a tomato is a vegetable

[Magnesium02]

There are 2 'classifications'

Botanically - Pumpkin is a Fruit
Cullinarily - Pumpkin is a Vegetable.