Message-ID: <31633330.1075839994442.JavaMail.evans@thyme> Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2001 18:24:18 -0800 (PST) From: bill.williams@enron.com To: kate.symes@enron.com Subject: RE: Fruits & Vegetables Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-From: Williams III, Bill X-To: Symes, Kate X-cc: X-bcc: X-Folder: \ExMerge - Williams III, Bill\Sent Items X-Origin: WILLIAMS-W3 X-FileName: A truly useful fount of knowledge... -----Original Message----- From: Symes, Kate Sent: Monday, November 05, 2001 2:01 PM To: Williams III, Bill Subject: Fruits & Vegetables Here you go..... A fruit is the matured ovary of a flower, containing the seed. After fertilization takes place and the embryo (plantlet) has begun to develop, the surrounding ovule becomes the fruit. Yum. I won't go on about the four types of fruit--simple, aggregate, multiple and accessory--which explain things like berries and pineapples. A vegetable is considered to be edible roots, tubers, stems, leaves, fruits, seeds, flower clusters, and other softer plant parts. In common usage, however, there is no exact distinction between a vegetable and a fruit. The usual example is the tomato, which is a fruit, but is eaten as a vegetable, as are cucumbers, peppers, melons, and squashes. The classification of plants as vegetables is largely determined by custom, culture, and usage. Okay, now the part which may surprise you. A grain is described as the dry fruit of a cereal grass, such as the "seedlike fruits of the buckwheat and other plants, and the plants bearing such fruits." So, grain is also a fruit. Kate Symes Real Time Trading Support Office/503-464-7744 Cell/503-819-2181 Fax/503-464-7996