Is marijuana a fruit or vegetable?

I think the cannabis cookbook writers didn't know the definition of what a fruit is. My plants remain unfertilized therefore they are herbs.


A fruit is a ripened ovary. Inside the ovary is one or more ovules (eggs). The ovules are fertilized in a process that starts with pollination, which is the movement of pollen from the stamens to the stigma of flowers. After pollination, a tube grows from the pollen through the stigma into the ovary to the ovule and sperm are transfered from the pollen to the ovule, when the sperm enters the nucleus of the ovule and the endosperm mother cell, the fertilization process is completed.[4] As the developing seeds mature, the ovary begins to ripen. The ovules develop into seeds and the ovary wall, the pericarp, may become fleshy (as in berries or drupes), or form a hard outer covering (as in nuts). In some cases, the sepals, petals and/or stamens and style of the flower fall off. Fruit development continues until the seeds have matured. In some multiseeded fruits, the extent to which the flesh develops is proportional to the number of fertilized ovulesuit is a ripened ovary. Inside the ovary is one or more ovules (eggs). The ovules are fertilized in a process that starts with pollination, which is the movement of pollen from the stamens to the stigma of flowers. After pollination, a tube grows from the pollen through the stigma into the ovary to the ovule and sperm are transfered from the pollen to the ovule, when the sperm enters the nucleus of the ovule and the endosperm mother cell, the fertilization process is completed.[4] As the developing seeds mature, the ovary begins to ripen. The ovules develop into seeds and the ovary wall, the pericarp, may become fleshy (as in berries or drupes), or form a hard outer covering (as in nuts). In some cases, the sepals, petals and/or stamens and style of the flower fall off. Fruit development continues until the seeds have matured. In some multiseeded fruits, the extent to which the flesh develops is proportional to the number of fertilized ovules

HoppusTheCaveman said:

In this cookbook I have, it says it's a fruit.

"'They've outlawed the number one vegetable on the planet,' bemoaned New Age guru and acid head Timothy Leary, back in the sixties. And while it's not actually a vegetable(technically, it's a fruit), it is true that for some reason goverments really have it in for this seemingly innocuous plant."

I don't see why The Cannabis Cookbook would lie to us about that. Yes, I am taking their word that pot is indeed a fruit, because whoever wrote this book obviously did their research according to the long introduction about weed and cooking weed, and wouldn't just throw that in there without looking into it.

Marijuana=Fruit

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Marijuana isnt a fruit or vegetable! It is the pussy of the female weed plant lol.

No pollination, no fruit? Ok, herb is an herb...

its deffinatly a herb. I know it has been mentioned but fruits have to be fertilized and vegtables no matter how "fertile" dont produce seeds. Dropping Marijuana out of both catagories. And weeds can grow fruits, some vegtables are weeds marijuana is just called weed that clears that myth up

Cheers matt

honestly...i really dont care if its a fruit or a vegatable....lol... its fantasticly delicious to the lungs either way.......ps...im stoned as hell....lol..

I would call it a fruit: reason 1. It is grow on a tree.
2. It produces seeds.(both fruit and vegetables produce seeds(Cucumbers, apples)
3.Weed is sweet



I honestly don't care, Smoke some dope.

Peace

Neither,

It is a flower!

I wouldnt call it a herb because most herbs are made from leaf material, not flower material.

The buds (what we smoke) are flowers so I would define it as an Ethnobotanical flower

its a type of weed

piski said:

its a type of weed

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what is a weed?

weeds that grow ontop of grass haha

vegtables dont have seeds... Potato, carrot, turnip, lettuce etc.
Fruits do. Tomatoes are fruits so are cucumbers, banana, capsicum etc.

Its the healing heeerb brother, ganja the tree of life

Potato, carrot, and turnip are tubers. The root is the part you eat. They propagate by growing smaller root tubers out of them and they break off underground forming a new plant.

Corn - vegetable and the part you eat is the seed
Peas, you eat the seed.

Green beans encase the seed, peppers are full of seeds.

Vegetables come in many forms.


With herbs sometimes the flower is used, sometimes it's the leaves, sometimes you use the root.

kwaka80 said:

vegtables dont have seeds... Potato, carrot, turnip, lettuce etc.
Fruits do. Tomatoes are fruits so are cucumbers, banana, capsicum etc.

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I believe those vegetables are classified as legumes, like beans, more a protein than a vegetable.

Marijuana actually is a fruit, it creates a flower with either pollen or a pistol, if it is fertilized a seed is produced inside the calyx, just cause it isn't a fleshy fruit doesn't mean it's not a fruit.

Weed, isn't a classification, and herbs don't create fruit.

Technically it's fruit.

But who gives a shit, it's medicine, food, fuel, and fiber.

I say "every body must get stoned"

This is the part I like best. Wait let me fire up.

lol well i already am grilled... hence why im talking some shit

The fruit of a plant contains its seeds: apples, pears, peaches, oranges, bananas, mangoes, kiwis, cucumbers, and tomatoes are examples of fruits. Yes, cucumbers and tomatoes are fruits! Technically, a tomato is a berry, like a grape. Vegetables are generally everything else -- the leaves, stalks, stems (including tubers), roots, etc.

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Ahhhh, makes sense but right now I'm too stoned.

So the calyxes are fruit, and the leaves and stalks are technically vegetables? ::