The strawberry is a popular fruit. The fruit is sweet and has edible seeds on the outside. Many people eat strawberries with ice cream or dip them in sugar. Strawberries are rich in vitamin C and manganese.

However, are its seeds really on the outside?

Actually, those things we think of as strawberry seeds aren’t seeds. The big, red strawberry “fruit” is also not, technically, a fruit.

In “true” fruits, like peaches, a flower is pollinated. Then, the flower’s ovary swells and becomes the fruit, with the seed or seeds in the middle.

This is not the case with strawberries. In the pollination of a strawberry flower, the fruit doesn’t swell. Those “seeds” on the outside of a strawberry are actually tiny fruits! Each of them contains a single seed.

Aggregate fruits

Strawberries are technically “aggregate” fruits. Some other popular aggregate fruits are blackberry and custard apple.

What is an aggregate fruit?

This means a fruit that looks like one but contains many. The “seeds” (called achenes) on the outside are the true fruit. For example, an average-sized strawberry holds about 200 achenes.

 

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