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The taxonomy in biology can be really confusing. Potatoes (only their fruits), peppers, cucumbers, eggplants, avocados, lemons, oranges, kiwifruit and papayas are also in the berry club.
Potatoes are tubers, I don't think they fit the botanical definition of a fruit. They contain no seeds, for example.
The rest are though. Pumpkins was the one that always blew my mind.
The potato plant poisonous fruit is a berry though.
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You are correct, but the potato plant bears potato fruits, which are classified as berries. I will clarify that in my comment.
I hope you mean the taxonomy in botany, things are much clearer on the zoological side
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Well, I'm not a biologist and even all my houseplants are constantly dying. For me, biology as a whole is confusing.