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Cevilia@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I thought the tiny black dots inside were supposed to be the seeds?

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  • Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Ok, I stand corrected, TIL about parthenocarpy:

    In botany and horticulture, parthenocarpy is the natural or artificially induced production of fruit without fertilisation of ovules, which makes the fruit seedless

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    • teft@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      This is what the seeds actually look like in bananas for anyone who is curious.

      Image

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    • thetreesaysbark@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      So what are the tiny black dots?

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      • db2@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Spider eggs.

        But really they’re what would have been seeds but aren’t.

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      • Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Apparently these are not the seeds themselves but only the remains of the original ovulums that contained the seed when they still existed.

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