Soft fruit

Fruit types are summarized under soft fruit, the common features of which are mainly in the fruit properties (soft, small, rounded).

A distinction must be made between the fruit type “ berries ” and “soft fruit”, since the addition of fruit restricts the perennial and edibility. For example, from a botanical point of view, the tomato is a berry, but it is considered a vegetable because it is one year old. Conversely, a large part of the berry fruit types are not berries in terms of fruit structure (e.g. the strawberry is a common nut fruit ), but are traditionally classified as berry fruit due to the fruit properties.

The main types of berries belong to the order of the rose-like (Rosales). This upper unit includes the families of the Rosaceae and the Saxifragaceae. The genera Fragaria ( strawberries ) and Rubus ( raspberries , blackberries ) are assigned to the extensive Rosaceae family . The rose family also includes the chokeberry ( aronia ), the mountain ash ( Sorbus ), the rose hip ( Rosa ) and the medlar ( Mespilus ). In the family of the Saxifragaceae, the genus Ribes is in the foreground, which includes currants and gooseberries . In addition to the soft fruit species are the families Caprifoliaceae ( elderberry ), Elaneagnaceae ( sea buckthorn ) and Ericaceae ( blueberry , cranberry ).

Fruits incorrectly called “berries” from a botanical point of view. Only the blueberry is a real berry here.

Traditionally, soft fruit is one of the following:

• Chokeberry
• Blackberry (= collective stone fruit)
• Strawberry (= common nut fruit)
• Currants: black currant , red currant
• Blueberry
• Raspberry (= cluster fruit)
• elder
• Mulberry (= nut fruit bandage)
• Cloudberry (= cluster fruit)
• Cranberry (Cranberry)
• cranberry
• Sea buckthorn
• Gooseberry
• Tayberry
• Grape

See also: fruit fruits

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1. ↑ ^{a b} soft fruit. Varieties, planting, care, processing . Leopold Stocker Verlag , Graz 2001, ISBN 3-7020-0906-X .
2. ↑ Berries and special types of fruit . ISBN 3-906679-75-6 .