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An innocent Instagram selfie triggers an international botanical investigation and the description of a new species. The giant plant was visible from space, familiar to locals, and still missing from the scientific species list.
Tomatoes, bananas, grapes, peppers, and eggplants all qualify as botanical berries. Raspberries, blackberries, and strawberries do not. The botanical definition of a berry has almost nothing to do with what most people mean by “berry,” and the resulting produce-aisle chaos is spectacular.
Roots, stems, leaves, flowers, ovaries, seeds, and entire clusters of flowers: the produce aisle is botanically much stranger than its labels suggest. Plant scientists classify what we eat by how plant structures develop, not by where the grocery store shelves them.