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Also known as botanical berries, botanical berry

botanical fruit with fleshy pericarp, containing one or many seeds

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A berry is a type of fruit with a soft, fleshy interior that contains one or more seeds. Berries matter because they are a common food source for both humans and wildlife, and they play an important role in plant reproduction and seed dispersal.

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Redcurrants, a type of berry derived from a simple (one-locule) inferior ovary Kiwifruit, a berry derived from a compound (many carpellate) superior ovary

In botany, a berry is a fleshy fruit produced from a single flower containing one ovary. Berries so defined include grapes, currants, and tomatoes, as well as cucumbers, eggplants (aubergines), persimmons and bananas, but exclude certain fruits that meet the culinary definition of berries, such as strawberries and raspberries. The berry is the most common type of fleshy fruit in which the entire outer layer of the ovary wall ripens into a potentially edible "pericarp". Berries may be formed from one or more carpels from the same flower (i.e. from a simple or a compound ovary). The seeds are usually embedded in the fleshy interior of the ovary, but there are some non-fleshy exceptions, such as Capsicum species, with air rather than pulp around their seeds.

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