On 05/03/2012 10:14 PM, Jean B. wrote:
> Dave Smith wrote:
>> On 05/03/2012 4:03 PM, David Dyer-Bennet wrote:
>>> Doug > writes:
>>>
>>>> Dave Smith wrote:
>>>>> Helpful person wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> It's not a root, it's a rhizome.
>>>>>
>>>>> Yep.... and that rhizome is called ginger root.
>>>>
>>>> Peppercorns are nuts not corns. Same type of technicality.
>>>
>>> Are they? Not dried berries? (And is it the same for black, white,
>>> green, and other types of peppercorn?)
>>
>>
>> They are drupes..... like cherries, peaches, plums and apricots. There
>> are a fruit with a fleshy outside covering a seed. Raspberries and
>> blackberries are made up of aggregate drupes.
>
> They are? I thought I'd seen pics that wouldn't imply that. Wait! I will
> check out what Gernot Katzer has to say on the matter. BRB. He does call
> them fruits, but I see not mention of drupes.
>
Sooo...... your not googling "pepper drupe" means it is not so?