Why do strawberries have pips on the outside and gooseberries have pips on the inside?

Answer 1

What you call 'pips' are in reality fruits or seeds of the fruit concerned.

1) Strawberry - The fruit of this plant is in fact enlarged , juicy, red receptacle to which the individual , tiny , brown fruits are attached.

Each fruit ( or a fruitlet due to its size contains a seed in side.)
The fruits are unattractive and form a minor part of the edible 'fruit' ; which in fact not a true fruit but a receptacle.

click the links below to see the pictures-

http://www.adampolselli.com/photos/strawberry.jpg

http://www.yesconsultancy.com/Client%20pics/AVA/AVA%20Strawberry%203.jpg

http://www.hort.purdue.edu/ext/senior/fruits/images/large/strawberry.jpg

This type of deception is often encountered in fruits.

Another example is cashew fruit . The so called fruit is again the receptacle or the stalk of the true fruit; but it is so large , and juicy and attractively colored and EDIBLE that people think it IS the fruit( called cashew apple by some) .

What they call 'seed' is the real fruit with edible and famous and kidney shaped real seed in side!

Click the links-
http://minerals.gps.caltech.edu/brazil/icapui_to_mines/GR0705.jpg

http://www.nda.agric.za/docs/cashews/cashew%20copy1.jpg

http://www.botany.org/bsa/psb/2002/cashew.jpg

http://www.tropicalfruitnursery.com/images/Cashew10-04-lg.jpg

2) Gooseberry- In this fruit the 'pips' are the seed and they are , as expected , INSIDE the fruit.

click the link--
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1f/Stachelbeeren.jpg

Answer 2

Because fruits are ripened ovaries! The ovaries of a strawberry are the achenes (don't call them pips) you see on the outside. The flesh is actually an enlarged receptacle.

A gooseberry is a more normal fruit where the ripened ovary is the flesh. The seed is the ovule.

Answer 3

That is just the way mother nature intended on things