Not a seed, the peach pit is a botanical misnomer: a woody case built by the fruit itself, while the actual seed waits inside. A hard misnomer. In a peach, the edible flesh and the so-called pit both arise from the ovary wall, a fact ordinary kitchen language manages to hide. Its surface invites that mistake.The distinction is less trivial than it sounds. Botanists class the peach as a drupe, a fr...More