Most people can easily tell fruits and vegetables apart, but the distinction between different types of fruit is often less clear. Part of the rose family, the strawberry is an accessory aggregate fruit, meaning one that forms from multiple ovaries within the same flower. (The definition of a vegetable is a little fuzzier: any edible part of a plant that isn't a fruit.) The strawberry is not a berry, nor is most of it a fleshy fruit. An apple is a sweet, edible fruit produced by an apple tree (Malus domestica). By definition, a vegetable is any plant whose fruit, seeds, roots, tubers, bulbs, stems, leaves, or flower parts are used as food, as the tomato, bean, beet, potato, onion, asparagus, spinach, or cauliflower. And as each ovaries develops into a small fruit, the entire mass of the tine fruits fuses together into the large structure we all know and love as the pineapple ... Black Berry Apple Berry … Berries are a subcategory of simple fleshy fruit ( 1 ). Apple trees are cultivated worldwide and are the most widely grown species in the genus Malus. Subcategories within the fruit family—citrus, berry, stonefruit or drupe (peaches, apricots), and pome (apples, pears)—are determined by which parts of the flower/ovary give rise to the skin, flesh and seeds. Pomes , such as apples and pears , are also accessory fruits: the core is the true fruit. Common examples are strawberries, raspberries, blueberries, blackberries, red currants, white currants and blackcurrants. A pome is an accessory fruit composed of one or more carpels surrounded by accessory tissue. An apple is a sweet, edible fruit produced by an apple tree (Malus domestica). If you know the answer to this question, please register to join our limited beta program and start the conversation right now! The fleshy, edible part comes from the receptacle of the flower, and the botanical fruits are miniature and surround the seeds. That green structure is actually one of the many fruits in a strawberry. The tree originated in Central Asia, where its wild ancestor, Malus sieversii, is still found today. In Britain, soft fruit is a horticultural term for such fruits. Every Berry is a type of fruit, but a berry is defined by if it is created from one single ovary.