I understand that you can cut off a branch of s tree and stick it to another tree to get fruit of the original one. But then why don’t you get that exact fruit if you plant seeds of it? But then, there’s other plants where you get the exact same fruit that you ate if you plant it.
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There are a lot of plant varieties and cultivars and a lot of them interbreed rather easily And way more readily than an animal ever could.
Which does present certain problems when you combine it with the fact that the part of the fruit you usually it actually grows from the mother plant – not from the seed. So the culinary important part is the ovary walls or the receptacle where the flower sits on.
Apples are a good example but there are even worse offenders:
Take a big orange pumpkin. You know what kind of fruit the mother produces but you have no idea where that pollen came from.
If you plant the seeds get squashes. You might get butternut, zucchini, gourds or stuff that is so bitter it is actual poison.
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