Better to ask a stupid question than not ask and stay stupid:
After a flower blooms, I tend to try to mark whatever it does to produce seeds as “fruiting”. E.g. https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/41604061 gets marked fruiting bc it’s dispersing seeds. Is this correct? At some point does it get unreasonable, for example, trying to mark grass seedheads as blooming/fruiting?
I find it reasonable. For fruit, I go by the definition, “the seed-bearing structure in flowering plants formed from the ovary after flowering.” So fruiting would be having said structure.
While we’re on the topic of the meanings of the word “fruiting”, a presence of mushrooms can also be referred to as a fruiting as they’re structures used to disperse spores, much like a fruit disperses seeds.