Due to the fact that everything wonderful on our planet is distributed on the shelves, according to families, kinship, species and subspecies, it is quite easy for us to determine the type of certain animals and plants.
But, sometimes, personally, I have questions about certain types of plants and the names of their fruits.
For example, strawberries, raspberries, blackberries and other fruits of herbaceous plants are called berries, it's funny that watermelon is also considered a berry.
The fruits of mulberry trees, similar to raspberries, but also stone fruits, cherries and cherries, are also called berries, but, cherry plum, plum and apple, these are no longer berries, but fruits.
Apparently, there was no intermediate definition for small stone fruits, lol.
It is strange for me that the dogwood fruit is referred to as a berry, as we see on a postage stamp with a face value of 15 kopecks of the USSR, issued in the Soviet Union in 1982.
At that time, there were no cultivars of cornelian cherry, and if they were, then only in some arboretums.
Usually, it was necessary to go deep into the forest, in search of dogwood trees.
Its fruits have a strange, very tart pulp and a unique taste and aroma.
Usually, bringing home the collected dogwood, we poured it out in a dark place so that the collected fruits would ripen and gain sugar content.
Usually, this is done with some fruit, fruit crops, but not with berries.
If you don't know, the ripe peaches you see in the store were picked and left in a cool place and then they were loaded into trucks at night, definitely at night, so that the sun would not heat them up while they were still green. And while they were delivered in cold stores to your country, they gradually ripened.
Therefore, for me, it is very controversial to call dogwood a berry, I think it is closer to a plum than a strawberry, lol.
But, I'm a small person to argue with the docks of biology, lol, and, therefore, I am forced to see dogwood on this postage stamp with the mention that it is a berry!
Information about this postage stamp:
Country: USSR.
Subject: # Flora, # Berries, # USSR.
Series: Wild berries.
Name: Dogwood (Cornus sp.).
Denomination of a postage stamp: 15 USSR kopek.
Michel's USSR catalog code: 5158.
Episode release date: March 10, 1982 - October 30, 1992.
Perforation: comb 12 x 12¼.
Postage stamp size: 30 x 42 mm.
Printing technology: Offset lithography.
Circulation: 5,300,000.
Estimated price for a clean postage stamp: $ 0.14 - $ 0.22.
Estimated price for a canceled postage stamp: $ 0.03 - $ 0.11.
Photo: original from 
Clean postage stamp
To be continued!
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