So what are the tiny black dots?
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Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de 6 days agoOk, 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
thetreesaysbark@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago
db2@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Spider eggs.
But really they’re what would have been seeds but aren’t.
Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de 6 days ago
Apparently these are not the seeds themselves but only the remains of the original ovulums that contained the seed when they still existed.
teft@piefed.social 6 days ago
This is what the seeds actually look like in bananas for anyone who is curious.
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