Strawberry 'Seeds' Are Actually Individual Fruits
What we think of as strawberry seeds are actually tiny fruits called achenes, and the strawberry itself is not technically a berry.
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Strawberries are one of nature's most deceptive fruits. The tiny yellow specks we call 'seeds' on the outside of strawberries are actually individual fruits called achenes, each containing a single seed. The red, fleshy part we eat is actually the receptacle - the swollen base of the flower that holds the fruit. This makes strawberries an 'aggregate accessory fruit' rather than a true berry. A single strawberry can have 150-300 of these tiny fruits on its surface. In botanical terms, true berries (like grapes, bananas, and surprisingly, eggplants) develop from a single flower with one ovary and have seeds enclosed within the flesh.