The Mocking Duchesnea indica

— feeling amazing

 

 

The mock strawberry may look juicy but its taste has been described as everything from insipid to poisonous!

D. indica is not a berry and like its more delicious cousin is actually an accessory fruit. Such fruits are not ovary-derived but other tissue adjacent to it.

In the case of the straw"berries", the fruits are the hard seed-like structures, outside the fleshy achene,

 

 

The not-mocking strawberry achene

 

 

The not so polite one

 

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Source: http://www.botanicalgarden.ubc.ca/potd/2015/07/duchesnea-indica.php