果物 and 果実: Eating fruit and describing fruit on a tree
Compare 果物 in breakfast and shop displays with 果実 growing on a tree or giving off a ripe scent. Preserve overlap instead of dividing the words into edible and inedible fruit.
果物 eaten or displayed
「朝ご飯にパンと果物を食べました。」 — “I ate bread and fruit for breakfast.” 果物 names food eaten with bread at breakfast. 食べました reports eating, without specifying the fruit variety or the number of pieces.
「店の前に季節の果物が並んでいる。」 — “Seasonal fruits are displayed in front of the store.” 季節の果物 names the goods in front of the shop. 並んでいる describes their display, rather than completed selling or eating.
果実 growing and ripening
「庭の木に赤い果実が実った。」 — “Red fruit grew on the tree in the garden.” 庭の木に names where the fruit developed. The focus is on 赤い果実 growing there; the sentence contains no act of eating.
「熟した果実から甘い香りが漂う。」 — “A sweet fragrance drifts from the ripe fruit.” 熟した果実から identifies the source of the scent. Ripeness and fragrance do not add completed harvesting or a condition for eating every fruit.
Overlapping fruit names
The food and shop contexts for 果物 differ in focus from the tree and ripeness contexts for 果実. Their referents can overlap, so 果実 does not mean inedible fruit by definition.
食べました, 並んでいる, 実った, and 香りが漂う describe eating, display, fruit development, and scent. Shared fruit vocabulary does not merge these into one completed event.
Does 「赤い果実」 growing on a tree have to be inedible because it is called 果実?
Show the answer and why
No. The sentence describes red fruit developing on the tree. 果物 and 果実 can overlap; compare the eating and display contexts with the fruit-development and ripeness contexts.