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• Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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  • thetreesaysbark@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    So what are the tiny black dots?

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    • db2@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Spider eggs.

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

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    • Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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