Fruit

In botanical terms, a fruit is the capsule enclosing the seeds of a flowering plant, or any structure originally derived from such an organ in the case of those flowering plants that produce fruit without seeds, like domesticated bananas and navel oranges.

Culinarily speaking, a fruit is any plant or plant part, in addition to botanical fruits, that are eaten as a sweet or a dessert, but are either not a seed, or not processed like a grain, i.e., an apple, or rhubarb stalk are considered "fruits," whereas an almond or wheat grains made into flour to make cookies or cakes with are not. {| class="article-table" ! colspan="2" |

Type
! colspan="2" |Examples
 * colspan="2" |Botanical Fruits
 * colspan="2" |Apple, Pear
 * colspan="2" |Non-botanical Fruits
 * colspan="2" |Rhubarb
 * colspan="2" |Non-plant "dessert"
 * colspan="2" |White cloud fungus, Candy cap mushrooms
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 * colspan="2" |Non-plant "dessert"
 * colspan="2" |White cloud fungus, Candy cap mushrooms
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