uh-Rah for Raspberries

The aggregate fruit loved by all has come to fruit-ion in Hershey Children’s Garden, and it is ripe for the picking. One of the many memorable things to do in the Garden is to savor a few sweet raspberries you just picked yourself. A raspberry is not as it may appear. In fact, a raspberry is not even truly a berry. Shucks!

Raspberries and blackberries (also found in the Children’s Garden) are both aggregate fruits meaning multiple, separate fruits coming from one flower structure, so each of those little juicy bumps is a separate fruit! More than that, each little juicy bump came from a separate little floret. So the next time your kids are munching away on their latest discovery, ask them, “How many fruits do you see there?”

 Posted by Josh Steffen

Tags: Blackberries, cleveland, cleveland botanical garden, Picking fruit, Raspberry, Youth Gardening

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