Hey all. This has popped in my head over the past week. What is a coconut? Everyone seems to have a different opinion whether it's a seed, fruit, or as it says in the name, nut. Anyone have some solid facts/info they could post? I was thinking fruit. Instead of the seed being on the inside it's what surrounds the coco water. I know I could probably google it but I'd rather hear from you guys.
hhhhuuuummmm....don't really know, but common sense tells me that it's a huge nut, that taste awesome, has many uses...sooo coco..nut sounds good to me!
yeah. i think we were discussing what's a fruit or veggie in the food combination thread as well. someone mentioned that a fruit is any plant that has seed(s) inside. so ugh... nut?
A nut in botany is a simple dry fruit with one seed (rarely two) in which the ovary wall becomes very hard (stony ... Brazil nut is the seed from a capsule. ... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nut_(fruit)
SO NUTS ARE DRY FRUITS WOW ! I learned something so profound today. Ha.
It's a seed; the fruit is a fibrous drupe whose outside is usually removed before it's delivered to the store. The white stuff on the inside is endosperm. The embryo is a tiny thing inside one of the three holes; when it sprouts, it extends its cotyledon to cover the inside of the endosperm.
All palm fruits are drupes with three ovules; normally only one turns into a seed.
Almonds are also drupes, not nuts; they are in the same genus as peaches. Brazil nuts aren't nuts; they are hard-shelled seeds, which come in a capsule containing about twenty or thirty of them. Occasionally a Brazil nut collector has been bonked on the head by one of these capsules falling.
Yes, the hazelnut is a real nut, as are the acorn, walnut, and pecan. All those are in Fagales. I think there are some nuts elsewhere in the plant kingdom, but I don't know where they are.
I looked up the hemp nut (family Cannabidaceae, also spelled Cannabinaceae or Cannabaceae - I don't know enough Latin to know which is right) in Delta-Intkey, and yes it's a nut.
I know I could probably google it but I'd rather hear from you guys. 
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