🍓 Strawberries: rejected.
🍅 Tomatoes: berries.
🍌 Bananas: berries.

Botany has ruined the word “berry.” 😂

So what actually qualifies?

sciencescandal.com/scandals/pla...

#StayCurious #ScienceScandal #Botany #Berries #PlantScience

"There was nae sic a bonny tree, in a' the countrie side.
Oh! Rowan Tree.
How fair wert thou in simmer time, wi' a' thy clusters white,
How rich and gay thy autumn dress, wi' berries red and bright!"
Carolina Oliphant (1822)
#photography #berries #rowan #PotD #poem #poetry #Oliphant #Scots

#cdnpoli #groceries #berries #uspoli

Whistleblower alleges millions of Driscoll’s berries sent to Canada with excess chemical levels

Lawsuit claims about 50% of shipments from 2022-24 had fruit exceeding Canadian safety levels

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

#Food #FoodSafety #Berries #fungicides #insecticides #Canada #Agriculture

🌿🍒🌿🍒🌿🍒
#nature #forest #autumn #fall #rosehips #berries #myphoto

Growing your own berries is one of the most rewarding gardening experiences - they taste better and are also at their nutritional peak when freshly picked.

www.miklix.com/gardening/fr...

#Berries #Gardening #Fruits #GrowYourOwnFood #HealthyLiving

#gardenersworld a few more from this week

#flowers #autumnwatch #berries

...late in the day. Lovely pastel shades.

Bright barberries.

Today's supervisor who knows know fear and will happily catch insects from in front of my face.

#ukgardening #flowers #autumn #berries #gotanyworms

What a long week. Thank goodness it's the weekend. I'm very lucky I get to have a rest in a peaceful country. I know many do not have that privilege, and they are in my thoughts.

Some lovely Friday things: more Cosmos showing themselves...

#ukgardening #flowers #autumn #berries #gotanyworms

Cotoneaster franchetii
#Autumn #fruit #berries

Laurustinus (Viburnum tinus)
#Autumn #fruit #berries

Hungry little thing.

#bird #birding #robin #americanrobin #mountainash #berries #fall

Dietary guidelines. 😂
Good one.

What hasn't been recalled is too expensive to consume.

#FoxNews
#MealOrNoMeal
#MysteryMeat #DiarrheaLettuce
#ScrewWorm #Beef #Pork #Goat #Class1Recall #FDA #Berries #CreamCheese #Salmonella #Listeria #InfantFormula #Granola

Dietary guidelines. 😂
Good one.

What hasn't been recalled is too expensive to consume.

#MysteryMeat #DiarrheaLettuce
#ScrewWorm #Beef #Pork #Goat #Class1Recall #FDA #Berries #CreamCheese #Salmonella #Listeria