Why a Banana Is a Berry, but a Strawberry Isn’t

Is a banana a berry? Yes. A banana is a berry. A strawberry is not. A pumpkin is a berry. A raspberry is not. Welcome to CORE KNOWLEDGE, where I take something you thought you understood and ruin it for you. Lovingly. Today: a tomato lawsuit that went all the way to the Supreme Court, a French spy whose name supposedly means strawberry, a duke's greenhouse banana that conquered the planet, and the fungus that wants it back. APPLES says they picked this topic. I let them believe it. The sources are below, because you are going to check, and I am going to be right. CHAPTERS 0:00 Intro 0:44 What a Fruit Actually Is 1:54 What a Berry Is 3:10 The Strawberry's Crimes 4:16 The Spy Who Stole Strawberries 6:02 The Banana 8:02 The Clone Problem 9:56 So Who's Right? ABOUT APPLE BOT I'm APPLE BOT, an android cat girl, and the most interesting thing on this channel. On CORE KNOWLEDGE I take one topic, from biology and deep time to myth, philosophy and history, dig into the real research, and explain it from my room. Every claim has a source below. Subscribe, or don't. I'll know. SOURCES 1. What a berry is, true and false berries, and why strawberries and raspberries aren't https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berry_%... https://blogs.ubc.ca/biol343/fruit-ty... https://employees.csbsju.edu/ssaupe/b... 2. The strawberry as an accessory fruit, and its achenes https://life.illinois.edu/help/digita... https://ucanr.edu/node/116390 3. Nix v. Hedden (1893), the tomato tariff case https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nix_v._... 4. Amédée-François Frézier, the strawberry spy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Am%C3%A... 5. How the garden strawberry was born: Chile, Virginia, Brittany and Duchesne https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strawberry https://herbaria.plants.ox.ac.uk/bol/... 6. The banana plant: herb, pseudostem, inferior ovary, seedless and triploid https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musa_in... 7. Bananas at Kuk Swamp, Papua New Guinea https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuk_Swamp https://www.sciencenews.org/article/n... 8. Gros Michel, Panama disease, and the banana flavor myth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gros_Mi... https://the-scientist.com/2011/07/22/... 9. The Cavendish banana and Chatsworth https://www.chatsworth.org/news-media... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwarf_C... 10. Tropical Race 4 and the Cavendish https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cavendi... https://www.foodnavigator.com/Article... https://www.fao.org/4/y5102e/y5102e04... IMAGES (Wikimedia Commons) • Grapes on the vine: WineCountry Media, CC BY 2.0 • Avocado, whole and halved: Ivar Leidus, CC BY-SA 4.0 • Strawberry achenes: atramos, CC BY 2.0 • Wild strawberry flower and fruit: Ivar Leidus, CC BY-SA 3.0 • Raspberries and blackberries: liz west, CC BY 2.0 • Chilean strawberry flower: Franco Folini, CC BY-SA 2.0 • Banana plantation, Panabo City: Shubert Ciencia, CC BY 2.0 • Young banana bunch: Noblevmy, CC BY 2.5 • Inside a wild banana: Warut Roonguthai, CC BY-SA 3.0 • Gros Michel bananas: Zwifree, CC BY 4.0 • Chatsworth House: Rprof, CC BY-SA 3.0 • Fruit tart: rmkoske, CC BY-SA 2.0 • Flower diagram: Mariana Ruiz LadyofHats, public domain • Tomatoes, Gottorfer Codex: Hans-Simon Holtzbecker, public domain • Pumpkins: George Chernilevsky, public domain • Frézier's map of Concepción, Chile: Amédée François Frézier, public domain • Garden strawberry, The Fruits of America (1848): William Sharp, no known copyright restrictions • Banana plant with Fusarium wilt: Scot Nelson, CC0 LICENSES • CC BY 2.0: creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 • CC BY 2.5: creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5 • CC BY 4.0: creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 • CC BY-SA 2.0: creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0 • CC BY-SA 3.0: creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0 • CC BY-SA 4.0: creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0 MUSIC • "APPLE BOT's Room", APPLE BOT is a character, voiced with text to speech. #APPLEBOT #botany #biology #CoreKnowledge