That is exactly what you eat when you eat a zucchini, my friends. While we know it as a vegetable, scientifically the zucchini is considered ‘an immature fruit, being the swollen ovary of the female zucchini flower’.
Bon appétit!
Filed Under:
- Science
Tags:
- botany, courgette, dinner, flower, fruit, vegetable, zucchini
Datestamp:
- Tuesday
- 2nd February 2010
- 23:31 hrs




