Botany
A Giant Pumpkin
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A pumpkin is a fruit, and botanically a kind of berry, grown from a single flower.
Pumpkin vines have separate male and female flowers. Bees carry pollen between them; only then can the female flower swell into a pumpkin like this one, packed with seeds.
Guess how heavy it is. How many small pumpkins would it take to match it?