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The flower becomes fertilized with pollen and swells into the fruit. The stigma (plant equivalent of ovaries) of the flower become the seeds if fertilised, and the rest grows around it. The resultant mass of tissue is a fruit. A plant part is only a fruit if the mass contains seeds. Therefore, apples and tomatoes are fruit, potatoes and strawberries are not. Bananas are technically herbs.

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