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Why is it that strawberries are the only fruit [that I can think of] with seeds on the outside?

Just a random question because it's been racking my brain for quite some time. Asked many persons but didn't get a good answer... Their answer always started with "Maybe..."

Sorry Mykel, got no answer for that. I usually eat the mushy, seedless jam in the jar thingy, lol.
But "maybe"... oh, nevermind, lol. :D

Lol. Gosh darnit. I curse the seedless jam in the jar thingy. Well, okay... How about why do you think it's a fruit with seeds on the outside?

Hmmm, curiosity is a curse sometimes.

I didn't really think of them as seeds before, so I didn't think of it that way...

Googled it and got this:
"In the plant reproductive process, seeds form inside the ovary (which becomes the fruit we know) after pollination.There are some plants where it appears that the seeds are carried on the outside of the fruit, but this simply isn't true.
Contrary to popular belief, the sweet red flesh of the strawberry is not the fruit. It is a part of the flower called the receptacle, which swells to attract animals to eat and scatter the true fruit. These are the small seed-like parts, called an achene."

Oh Google, what would life be without you? Lol.
Hey Dark Secrets, the first time I read your answer, I read the "ACHENE" wrong, I thought it was ACNE, lol, and I was like, WTF! Fruits get acne?! And I re-read it, and Im like, OOOPS, my bad, lmao! :D

^^ I had the exact same impression, because the word does work in the same sentence. ><

Well, Im glad that I was wrong, IF NOT! I will never, ever eat strawberries again, the jam in the jar thingy or not, SPECIALLY the not, lol. :D

Lol. I thought the same thing about the 'acne'.
Google has everything... :] I guess I should have thought of that before I posted this. Ha-ha.
Raspberries and and blackberries... yea... I guess that's true.
*sigh*
hmm.... buuuutt whyyyyy???? 0_o hehef

Oh, fruits. The most delicious ovaries around....

^ LOL

Well things happen for different reasons. And it's good you started this discussion, google isn't enough and it isn't interactive.

I guess strawberries have the seed looking thingys for some kind of reproducing system, because seeds aren't the only things in a plant for reproducing...

Looked it up once again and found this:
http://www.inhs.illinois.edu/~kenr/Side4.html
it has pictures so it might help in imagining the whole thing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achene
This one says that what I thought of is true... because naturally all receptacles have achene, which has some sort of reproductive function.

http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/3507/achene

Becuase strawberries think outside the box. maybe they just wanna be unique