Stone fruit

A stone fruit, also called a drupe, is a fruit with a large "stone" inside. The stone is sometimes called the seed, but that is a mistake, as the seed is inside the stone. The stones can also be called a pit. These fruits are edible and used frequently in cooking.

 Identification 

 What makes a fruit? 
A fruit is the matured ovary of a flower. Fruits consist of two main parts: the pericarp, or ovary wall, and the seed(s).

The pericarp has three layers: the exocarp (skin/rind), the mesocarp (bulk of the pericarp), and the endocarp (innermost layer).

 Berries vs. drupes 
The two main classes of fleshy fruits are berries and drupes, or stone fruits.

Berries have a fleshy mesocarp and endocarp, and may have multiple seeds.

Drupes have a fleshy mesocarp, but a tough endocarp, and of course, a "stone" or "pit" at its center. Drupes typically have only a single seed.

 Examples of stone fruits 
+Stone FruitsScientific nameDescriptionIn pop cultureApricotsPrunus armeniaca St. Ives' Apricot Scrub
 Stardew ValleyApriumsapricot/plum hybridBlackberriesRubus BlackBerry
 Blackberry (Watership Down), a fictional rabbit
 Blackberri, American singer-songwriter and community activist
 Wren Blackberry, children's fiction author
 "Blackberry" (song), by the Black Crowes
 "Blackberry Way", by The Move
 "Blackberry Blossom" (tune), a traditional fiddle tuneCherries cherry pie
 Stardew Valley
 I Kissed a Girl
 cherry ChapStick
 Animal CrossingCoconuts Coconut Mall
 Animal Crossing
 Stardew Valley
 Coconut emoji: 🥥
 coconut bras 🥥🥥
 "Coconut" song by Harry Nilsson
 "Midnight Margaritas" scene in the film Practical Magic in which the song "Coconut" by Harry Nilsson playsDatespoison dates in Raiders of the Lost ArkGreen almondsthe fruit of an almond tree, containing the pit or "nut" commonly referred to as an almond almond butter
 "almond moms"
 Almond JoyLychees lychee martiniMangoesMangifera indica The House on Mango Street
 the mango emojiMarionberriesa cultivar of blackberries Marionberry pancakes in PortlandiaMulberriesMorus Mulberry Tree, a painting by Vincent Van Gogh
 A Babylonian etiological myth, explored by Ovid in Metamorphoses, attributes the red color of mulberries to the deaths of Pyramus and Thisbe, a pair of ill-fated lovers
 The House on Mulberry Street
 And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry StreetNectarinesPrunus persica var. nucipersicaOlivesOlea europaea Olive, the Other Reindeer
 olive oil
 Olive Oyl, fictional character from the Popeye series
 Olive Penderghast, fictional character from Easy A
 Green Olive, Papillon Fashion's 2025 color of the year
 black olives on pizzaPeachesPrunus persicaPrincess Peach, fictional character from the Mario franchise
The peach emoji
 James and the Giant Peach
 Peaches, a mammoth from the Ice Age franchise voiced by Keke Palmer
Animal Crossing
Stardew Valley
The Daring Book for Girls by Miriam Peskowitz contains instructions to create a peach pit ring
Peach-Pit
Peaches and cream
Peach motif in the 2017 film Call Me By Your NamePlumsprunus domestica Sugar Plum Fairy
 Stardew Valley
 Professor Plum, a fictional character from the board game CluePluotsplum/apricot hybridSalmonberryrubus spectabilis Stardew Valley

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