Dear All,

Many among us still cannot define clearly the difference between vegetables and fruits, I would like to share some solid botanic differences the rest you can research by yourselves.

Botanically A fruit is the ripen ovary of a plant, which contains seeds, while a vegetable is a plant which does not contain seeds.
Some examples of fruits include well-known types of fruits like apricots, cherries, blueberries, and apples, but it is again very interesting to know that botanically tomatoes, pumpkins, cucumbers, and zucchini are also considered to be fruits, even though many people refer to these fruits as “vegetables” because they are savory, rather than sweet in the taste. This is the result of convenience labeling that is used upon them in the grocery industry, where fruits and vegetables are differentiated on the basis of whether they are sweet or savory, rather than with the use of any firm botanical criteria.
So we can say that a vegetable, on the other hand, is simply a plant part like a flower, stem, root, or leaf. Broccoli, for example is a vegetable which appears in the form of a flower, while celery is a stalk vegetable, and celeriac is a root vegetable. Vegetables like potatoes are technically tubers, not roots, meaning that they are specially designed plant structures which store nutrients for the parent plant; tubers are also capable of budding into new plants. Some examples of leaf vegetables include spinach, cabbage, and lettuce.

http://www.buzzle.com/articles/difference-between-fruit-and-vegetable.html

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