Is a raspberry, blackberry, loganberry, strawberry, blueberry a true berry?

Question

Can someone tell me the difference bewteen a berry and any other fruit and are the above berries? If not why not? If so can you explain.

Thank you.

Answer 1

In a true "berry" the entire pericarp is fleshy, although the skin may be one or many seeded.  For example grape, tomato, papaya, pomegranate, sapote, persimmon, and guava, are true berries. The banana and avocado fruits are often termed baccate (berry-like). [The banana fruit is a seedless, parthenocarpic berry developing without pollination and fertilization.

Aggregate Fruits:

Raspberries and Blackberries are not true berries but are classified as an aggregate of individual fruits - tiny, one-seeded drupes or drupelets. Logan berries are a variety of blackberry.

Strawberries are aggregates of tiny, one-seeded achenes imbedded in a sweet, fleshy receptacle.

Hope this helps -

Answer 2

True berries are a simple fruit having seeds and edible pulp produced from a single ovary. In common parlance, however, berries are more broadly recognized as small, round or semi-oblong, usually brightly colored, sweet or sour fruit desirable in a healthy diet.

Raspberry: False berry (Because it is a aggregate fruit-multiple fruits with seeds from different ovaries of a single flower)

Blackberry:False berry (Because it is a aggregate fruit-multiple fruits with seeds from different ovaries of a single flower)

Loganberry:Not sure but doubt that it is a real berry because it is hybrid produced from crossing a blackberry and a raspberry; both of which, are false berries.

Strawberry:False berry(Because edible part is not generated by the ovary)

Blueberry:False berry (Because it is epigynous-made from a part of the plant other than a single ovary)

Hope I helped :)

Answer 3

I think they are all fruits; they develop from friendliness of the flowers.