Potatoes have fruits as well - they look like little dark green tomatoes. Toxic of course, because nightshade.
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XTL@sopuli.xyz 4 weeks ago
Potatoes? One of the “family” just decided to be a tuber?
MrsDoyle@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago
Eggplant out here catching strays.
chuckleslord@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
… what? No, they’re all nightshade plants. Not the same plant, mind, but still the same family.
millie@beehaw.org 4 weeks ago
Just be glad they didn’t turn into crabs or cats.
MutilationWave@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
Get this, they’re so closed related that botanists created a plant that grows tomatoes above ground and potatoes below.
XTL@sopuli.xyz 4 weeks ago
Wild. TIL. Thanks.