Commentary for Berakhot 72:12
הוה עובדא ושקלוה לנץ דרמונא ויבש רמונא ושקלוה לפרחא דביטיתא ואיקיים ביטיתא
but here [in the case of the caper] the fruit does not perish if the protecting [bud] is removed. The experiment was made ; they removed the blossom of the pomegranate and the fruit withered ; they removed the flower of the caper but the caper survived.
Abraham Cohen Footnotes to the English Translation of Masechet Berakhot
Therefore we cannot argue from one to the other. The remainder of the paragraph reads like a marginal gloss incorporated into the text.
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