What Are Stone Fruit?

I read an article yesterday regarding buying Australian produce for Xmas and I was intrigued as to why it mentioned cherries separately to stone fruit.

I Googled it and came up with this amazing answer.

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The article on stone fruits was very interesting: I didn’t know about coconuts, raspberries, mulberries and blackberries - would never have considered adding them!

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Botanists must chuckle amongst themselves when classifying things. A coconut is a stone fruit, but an avocado is not?

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