Potatoes have fruits as well - they look like little dark green tomatoes. Toxic of course, because nightshade.
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XTL@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
Potatoes? One of the “family” just decided to be a tuber?
MrsDoyle@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
There is more to a plant than just the fruit, you know. It just happens that the species (cultivar?) of nightshade that we grow for potatoes has tasty, starchy roots, while others have tasty, zesty fruits, and then so.a of them are eggplant.
Narauko@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Eggplant out here catching strays.
chuckleslord@lemmy.world 10 months ago
… what? No, they’re all nightshade plants. Not the same plant, mind, but still the same family.
millie@beehaw.org 10 months ago
Just be glad they didn’t turn into crabs or cats.
MutilationWave@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
Get this, they’re so closed related that botanists created a plant that grows tomatoes above ground and potatoes below.
XTL@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
Wild. TIL. Thanks.