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Tricheco's avatar

I'll bet those killjoys would try to fact-check my brick stretcher.

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Amy Sukwan's avatar

As an avid horticulturalist I can assure you that I've seen strawberry trees advertised for sale in a few of those seasonal guides. Now they might be simply pruned tall bushes but who is mincing words?

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INGRID C DURDEN's avatar

ah these don't look like straberries either, but they are probably edible

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kitten seeking answers's avatar

they are tasty

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Jennifer Depew, R.D.'s avatar

They look like baby pomegranate. 🥰

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Stone Bryson's avatar

Community Notes once served a viable purpose, but over the past few months it has oft resembled a raging dumpster fire 🤦🏻

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Matthew Haviland's avatar

That is sort of bizarre for her to pretend to be picking a strawberry off a tree. In this case, I'll say the fact-checkers weren't off-base.

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Rat's avatar

There is however undue generalization from «the situation in this particular photo couldn’t happen» to «this can never happen».

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Matthew Haviland's avatar

What would be the “this,” in that case? Just wondering—but, yeah, generally, those things stick there like a little “This person is evil! Never listen again” label.

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Rat's avatar

«someone picking a strawberry growing in a tree 4 ft from the ground»

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Matthew Haviland's avatar

I have wandered out of my depth, lol. Which ironically is the clarion call of the fact-checker.

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Tardigrade's avatar

A case where the factcheckers are actually correct.

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Matthew Haviland's avatar

Yeah, it often doesn’t happen! And it was helpful, too, because you might not think about it.

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INGRID C DURDEN's avatar

there is a tree called the strawberry tree, Arbutus unedo, but the fruit does not look like strawberries and I don't think they are edible. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arbutus_unedo Here is a pic

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Thumbnail Green's avatar

They are edible

I’ve eaten them many times. The Irish strawberry tree

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Tardigrade's avatar

Rats are close to the ground. To rats, a strawberry plant could be treelike.

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Dave Wise (Neoteric Wood Art)'s avatar

Strawberry trees forever.

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Thumbnail Green's avatar

Arbutus Enedo bitches

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