Comment on The Nightshade Family

XTL@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• MutilationWave@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Get this, they’re so closed related that botanists created a plant that grows tomatoes above ground and potatoes below.

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  • XTL@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Wild. TIL. Thanks.

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• MrsDoyle@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Potatoes have fruits as well - they look like little dark green tomatoes. Toxic of course, because nightshade.

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• wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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  • Narauko@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Eggplant out here catching strays.

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• chuckleslord@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  … what? No, they’re all nightshade plants. Not the same plant, mind, but still the same family.

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• millie@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Just be glad they didn’t turn into crabs or cats.

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