Do root vegetables like carrots have a fruit that grows above ground? I know they have flowers

Question

Do root vegetables like carrots have a fruit that grows above ground? I know they have flowers

In: Biology

Answer 1

Potatoes have a small berry like a tiny green tomato (same family), but they are not edible. They contain more of the toxic chemicals potato tubers produce when they go green or get damaged.

Carrots, turnips, radishes, beets, parsnips and sweet potatoes just produce small seed heads (usually at the end of small stalks) that aren’t really fleshy like you think of fruit as being.