TIL: the life cycle of a cherry
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- riquisimo@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish6 hours
Shouldn’t have rotated them halfway through the top line. It adds confusion.
4 hoursI didn’t even do any edge correction. I just selected a rectangle and flipped it. If you zoom in and you know where it is you can clearly see it. I guess that’s a cool thing about textures like this.
- tiramichu@sh.itjust.worksEnglish5 hours
Seriously!
I was like “that’s one heck of a change, what happened in that step??”
They obviously did it because of our general preconception that “flowers point up” and “berries hang down” - but it really bugs me that whoever made the chart decided they were going to cater to that.
What do you mean “TIL”? This is how most fruits grow, how did you not know that?
- 5 hours
Fun fact: plums, peaches, and apricots used to be roughly this size as well, but generations of selective breeding increases the size of the fruit, and the ratio of fruit to seed/pit.
Almonds are also a member of this family, although we don’t eat the fruit of the almond (which splits open as it grows), and instead pick out the pit for a little morsel inside. That’s also why almond extract and cherry pit extract (sometimes known as bitter cherry) have similar flavor notes.
- 2 hours
Not every crop/species/cultivar respond well to selective breeding for size.
I don’t know the details of cherries in particular, but I know of another example of one stubborn crop not responding to attempts to increase the size: the skirret. Historical records indicate that carrots, parsnips, and skirrets were similar root vegetables that were grown for food, but breeders had much more success making carrots and parsnips bigger, with less success with the skirret. As a result, carrots and parsnips became more popular, and the skirret faded into obscurity in most cultures.
- Successful_Try543@feddit.orgEnglish9 hours
Erst weiß wie Schnee
Dann grün wie Klee
Dann rot wie Blut
Schmeckt allen Kindern gutFirst white as snow
then green as clover
then red as blood
tastes good to all children - hOrni@lemmy.worldEnglish4 hours
Depends on Your definition of wine. In my country anything made from fermented fruit is called wine. My friend once made wine out of carrots.
- Hemingways_Shotgun@lemmy.caEnglish4 hours
My father used to make a very excellent Cherry Liqueur from the tree in his yard.
