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A fruit in botany it is referring to a mature ovary. In fleshy fruits, the outer, often edible layer is the pericarp, which is the tissue that develops from the ovary wall of the flower and surrounds the seeds. While the seeds are akin to the eggs developing in the ovary of a fowl, the pericarp may be assumed as the uterus. However, there is a small number of fruits which do not fit into that description; for example in most nuts and legumes the edible part is the seed and not the pericarp. Many edible vegetables are actually stems, leaves, and even roots of the plant, while others like the cucumber, squash etc. are common pericarp and are botanically considered as fruits. Lastly in some seemingly pericarp fruits the edible portion is actually an aril. Fruits come in three main anatomical categories In berries and drupes, the pericarp forms the edible tissue around the seeds. In accessory fruits, other tissues develop into the edible portion of the fruit instead, for example the receptacle of the flower in apples and strawberries.
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