While most fruits have seeds on the inside (such as blueberries, tomatoes, watermelons), the strawberry is unique in that its seeds are on the outside of its surface. The truth is that the small “seeds” on the outside of the plant are actually the fruit itself, each containing an even smaller seed of their own. The large red part of the strawberry that we commonly consider the “fruit” is an overgrown receptacle tissue. This is the part of the plant that connects the flower to the stem.
As with us humans it takes a certain kind of intestinal fortitude for a fruit to scoff in the face of convention and be a trailblazer, someone or thing that dares stand out far from the madding crowd. (I do turn a phrase, even if it is someone else’s phrase!)
Strawberries, a nation in need of a new hero salutes you!