Salal with Fruits
Fun science fact: Salal ‘berries’ are not true berries! A fruit develops from the part of the flower called the ‘ovary’. There are two types of fruit: ‘dry’ (peanuts, acorns, poppies, milkweed, wheat) and ‘juicy’ (all berries, peaches, cucumbers, apples). You might assume that salal fruits are a berry, a type of juicy fruit –…![Salal with Fruits](https://learning.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Ericaceae_Gaultheria-shallon_China-Beach-Aug-2011_DSC_0432-480x360.jpg)