Banana is a berry or a fruit?

Everyone knows the banana periodically becomescause for disputes. Someone argues that this is a fruit, but someone insists that the banana is a berry. Let's still understand: banana - is it a berry or a fruit?

Definitions

• Fruit is usually called a fruit of a plant that contains seeds, with the help of which its further multiplication takes place. Fruits can be fleshy, stone and dry.
• The berry, according to the rules and norms of botany, is called such a fleshy fruit, which consists of juicy pulp, fine peel and hard seeds.

As we see from the definitions, berries are one of the varieties of fruit. That is, the expression is correct: every berry is a fruit, but not every fruit is a berry.

So, in accordance with observations and conclusionsscientists-botanists, a banana is a berry. The berry it has a thick rind and plenty of seeds. In the cultural forms of bananas, seeds are practically absent, since they propagate such species in a vegetative way and there is no need in the seeds for the plant.

Read other interesting facts about fruits in the article How are fruits called.