Not a “real” fruit because the flesh is a product of some tissue adjacent to the ovum instead of within it. That sounds oddly nit-picky to me, even for scientists. Do you think this might be an important distinction for some non-taxes reason, or are botanists just really pedantic sometimes?
Well done on the new graphic! It’s much easier to read now: I like the choice to use the darkest color and heaviest border for the “Definitely a tree” category, since that makes them pop out. When I look at it in greyscale (camera filter on my phone), the “Kind of a tree” green and “Definitely not a tree” orange are pretty close in value, but the borders make them easy to differentiate. Given that the goal was ostensibly to highlight the distribution of true trees, I think that’s entirely appropriate. And when I turn on my laptop’s blue blocker, I still have no problem seeing the difference between the categories.
When I showed the new graphic to my family, Partner suddenly started examining it and making connections. (“🧐 Look how closely related tea is to pitcher plants!”) And the 5yo was even trying to make sense of it! Neither of them seemed interested yesterday, so I’m declaring success!
Not a “real” fruit because the flesh is a product of some tissue adjacent to the ovum instead of within it. That sounds oddly nit-picky to me, even for scientists. Do you think this might be an important distinction for some non-taxes reason, or are botanists just really pedantic sometimes?
Well done on the new graphic! It’s much easier to read now: I like the choice to use the darkest color and heaviest border for the “Definitely a tree” category, since that makes them pop out. When I look at it in greyscale (camera filter on my phone), the “Kind of a tree” green and “Definitely not a tree” orange are pretty close in value, but the borders make them easy to differentiate. Given that the goal was ostensibly to highlight the distribution of true trees, I think that’s entirely appropriate. And when I turn on my laptop’s blue blocker, I still have no problem seeing the difference between the categories.
When I showed the new graphic to my family, Partner suddenly started examining it and making connections. (“🧐 Look how closely related tea is to pitcher plants!”) And the 5yo was even trying to make sense of it! Neither of them seemed interested yesterday, so I’m declaring success!