Dese berries, dey Ermine.

[theweaselking]

and also:

Comments

[kierthos.livejournal.com]

I swear, that second one looks like it's a toy, not a live animal.

[marlo.livejournal.com]

Aww! Much cuter in animal form than in garment form!

[skington.livejournal.com]

Stoatally awesome.

[frith]

Dollars to donuts those are rose-hips, not berries. ^_^

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

You think the tuberat knows that?

TOAFT

[lafinjack.livejournal.com]

[sterlingspider.livejournal.com]

My brain meats categorically refuse to parse those as real.

[caerlas.livejournal.com]

I was going to say that about the first one. Looks stuffed, it's the eyes, they look like plastic and almost look like they're external to whole socket and lid.

[pope-guilty.livejournal.com]

I'm always sad that you can't domesticate and pet and cuddle mustelids the way you can cats. They look precious.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

And then you consider how sharp those goddamn fangs are and how small the attached brain is.

(and how bad ferrets smell)

[opaqueplanet.livejournal.com]

Well if we want to be technical, tomatoes and grapes are true berries, cranberries and blueberries are false berries (being compound fruits). Rosehips are classified (with strawberries) as accessory fruit.

But in general parlance, any small edible fruit is usually called a berry, including -occasionally- rosehips.

[syonyk.livejournal.com]

... wow. I thought the first one was a painting originally.

[frith]

I dimly recall roses being somehow classified with apples, thus the this-is-not-a-berry quip. Otherwise, I'm with you 100% in classifying tomatoes as berries. Rosehips have their seeds on the outside?

[frith]

For the life of me I can't come up with repartee...

[opaqueplanet.livejournal.com]

You are right, rosehips and apples are both pomaceous fruit. Pomeaceous fruit fit under a larger heading called Accessory Fruit, which also houses strawberries. True Berry/False Berry/Accessory Fruit has to do with how many ovaries the fruit comes from, and whether it develops from the uterine tissue, or (in the case of accessory fruit) from adjacent tissue (not where the seeds are located).

Botany geek!

[frith]

Botany geek!

Yes. Yes you are. X-D Thanks, Botany Geek!