Summer time and the living is easy! For those who don’t quite agree on the second part of Ella Fitzgerald’s line, we got a little proof for you. Nothing screams “sunshine” as much as berries, and people are going crazy about the beauty of their life cycles.
It all started when a Twitter user named Alfie shared a picture of blackberries in their different stages of life, all arranged in a circle. The caption said: “Blackberries have cool stages of life, no?" A whopping 1.1M who hit like couldn’t agree more. In no time, people got on the bandwagon posting their own berry, fruit, leaf, and flower assemblages.
Visually satisfying and emotionally refreshing, berry evolution pics are now reminding us that the beauty of nature can fit in the palm of your hand.
(h/t mymodernmet)
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Life Cycle Of A Blackberry
Anyone in for a small botany lesson about why this is not a "real" berry? As you probably know, flowers have male organs, the stamen which contain the pollen, and female organs, called pistil, which receive the pollen at the tip and have a roundish base at the bottom - the ovary. The ovules, which develop into seeds upon conception, are inside the ovary. The pollen consists of 3 cells - the job of one is to grow through the entire pistil to the ovary, where the two contained sperm cells are released. Have you ever really noticed how long flower pistils can be?! And the pollen has to stretch all the way to the bottom! I'm in awe whenever I see a female maize flower. The protruding threads, which usually remain on the cob, are the pistils. So VERY long. And the pollen grows all the way, oh my god. (to be continued in an answer to this comment...)
We usually think of berries as a small, squishy type of fruit that can be picked off plants, but the scientific classification is far more complicated than that.
Berry nomenclature is so confusing “because people called certain fruits 'berries' thousands of years before scientists came up with a precise definition for the word,” believes Judy Jernstedt, who’s a professor of plant sciences at the University of California.
An interesting fact about berries is that in order to be one, it must bear two or more seeds. “Thus, a cherry, which has just one seed, doesn't make the berry cut,” Jernstedt explained. "They’re called drupes.”
Since We’re Into Strawberry Cycles, I Sent The Post To My Dad (A Berry Farmer) And He Sent Me This:
Remember when strawberries were normal sized and tasted like strawberry instead of giant and tasting like crunchy water?
And they were only available for six weeks if the year? Now they're all year round and grown in greenhouses in Southern Spain.
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I have a strawberry plant and I can only get it to the 4th stage before some animals eat it!
My dads, father, my papa, used to be a strawberry farmer in the late 60's and early 70's. I was a tot, sitting in strawberry fields, cramming my mouth full of them. I didn't even have two teeth, hahaha. Unfortunately, I don't remember any of it.
Strawberries are the only plant that have flowers, green berries, and ripe berries all on the same plant at the same time.
It depends on the variety of berry. Many commercial varieties have been bred to bear all their fruit at once and have it ripen at the same time to make harvesting much easier. Wild and garden-variety berries often exhibit indeterminate grown patterns, with flowers maturing and producing fruit throughout the season.
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Have some in my garden, it's so amazing to see them grow from flowers into juicy delicious strawberries!
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This is so aesthetically pleasing, so much that its KILLING me
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And when it feels like berries can't be more confusing, it turns out, yes, they can. Linda Ly, a botanist and blogger at Garden Betty, explains another bizarre botanical fact, which is that a banana is, in fact, a berry.
“During the flowering stage, an inflorescence, a banana heart, appears on the end of the stem. It is usually a long, tapered, tightly wrapped, deep purple bud.” As the buds open, “they reveal double rows of nectar-rich blossoms that make bees and hummingbirds go wild over them.”
Linda concludes that “Because the fruit is produced from a single ovary on the flower, a banana is actually classified as a berry, botanically speaking.”
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Ooh, dandelions are weird, too! Dandelion flowers (as well as most flowers in their family) are really a COLLECTION of flowers. A single flowers is defined by being its own unit with, from outside to inside, petals, stamens, and pistils. The number of each can vary, and parts can be missing (there can be separate male and female flowers, and sometimes the petals are reduced), but the order cannot vary. Looking closely at a dandelion flower, you'll notice that it consists of individual parts - a leafy decorative structure (the petal(s)), which surrounds some stamen and has a little "thread" in the middle that's split at the tip - the upper part of the pistil. The whole structure sits on top of a green round base, which is the bottom of the pistil, i.e. the ovary. If all pistils shared the same stamens and petals, they'd be considered a single flower, but that's not the case, so each petals/stamens/pistil(s) bundle is counted separately.
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Beautiful colours. I am a Synesthete. I see colours when I hear music and the colours of these flowers are exactly the colours I see when I hear the song "I'll find My Way Home " by Jon and Vangelis.
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In The Style Of The Strawberry Pics A Few Days Ago, Here's Our Aubergine Plants Ordered By Their Growth Stage
Some trolls must have passed by so you have an upvote from me. Who couldn't love this!
Load More Replies... A beautiful and soothing post. We need to relearn how to live in harmony with the rest of nature because we are simply a small part of it.
Yes, we need learn how to NOT kill everything living around us, because we are a small, however, only destructive part of it all.
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Beautiful pictures! I appreciate they didn't include pictures of people. I would be far past the mid point and feeling quite down today.
Can you imagine if they wanted to document the life cycle of a human being and they would kill each individual at every stage of development? Would you say it so beautiful, so interesting, so informative? You would be horrified, you would say why that massacre? What's wrong with you "scientists"? It's essentially the same here. Every little life is big to those living it.!!! Please do not forget it.
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Why was it necessary to take a life out of the life cycle??? Why not take pictures of each life stage of the same plant???? Why do people have to kill nineteen of them? Live and let live.
I find this very calming would make an awesome arm band tattoo I would say a good tattoo around the belly button but I got a stomach tattoo without much forethought into future pregnancy and let's just say my daughter left me with more than the usual wear of pregnancy by stretching that tattoo into complete nonsense lol
Some trolls must have passed by so you have an upvote from me. Who couldn't love this!
Load More Replies... A beautiful and soothing post. We need to relearn how to live in harmony with the rest of nature because we are simply a small part of it.
Yes, we need learn how to NOT kill everything living around us, because we are a small, however, only destructive part of it all.
Load More Replies... Beautiful pictures! I appreciate they didn't include pictures of people. I would be far past the mid point and feeling quite down today.
Can you imagine if they wanted to document the life cycle of a human being and they would kill each individual at every stage of development? Would you say it so beautiful, so interesting, so informative? You would be horrified, you would say why that massacre? What's wrong with you "scientists"? It's essentially the same here. Every little life is big to those living it.!!! Please do not forget it.
Load More Replies... Why was it necessary to take a life out of the life cycle??? Why not take pictures of each life stage of the same plant???? Why do people have to kill nineteen of them? Live and let live.
I find this very calming would make an awesome arm band tattoo I would say a good tattoo around the belly button but I got a stomach tattoo without much forethought into future pregnancy and let's just say my daughter left me with more than the usual wear of pregnancy by stretching that tattoo into complete nonsense lol
