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Tomato's and nightshade (Probably a dumb question.)
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Posted by aspergersgamer (My Page) on Sun, Sep 9, 07 at 16:03
| Is it possable too cross Tomoto's and deadly nightshade? There both nightshade, but i'm clueless. Any help please? |
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RE: Tomato's and nightshade (Probably a dumb question.)
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| Aspergersgamer, When I was growing up on a farm, we grew tomatoes in our garden and deadly nightshade was a fairly common weed in a nearby field. I was concerned at the time that bees might cross the two and produce tomatoes whose hybrid seeds might be toxic. None of us died from eating our tomatoes, but I certainly wouldn't deliberately cross the two. Ironically, there was a time over a hundred years ago when tomatoes themselves were thought to be poisonous. If memory serves, tomatoes were referred to as "love apples." MM |
RE: Tomato's and nightshade (Probably a dumb question.)
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| Thanks for the reply Maineman, it's quite helpfull, But it's safe too cross them aslong as you put them in a fenced area, and there not eaten. Plus i think it would only effect the plant of the tomato, not the tomatos themselfs. (Confusing, but eh.) Thanks again Maineman. |
RE: Tomato's and nightshade (Probably a dumb question.)
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| Aspergersgamer, "... I think it would only affect the plant of the tomato, not the tomatoes themselves." I wouldn't be so sure of that. The black berries of the Deadly Nightshade are themselves poisonous, so the F1 hybrids would very possibly have poisonous berry-tomatoes. After all, a tomato is botanically a berry. Incidentally, that's the answer to the old question of whether a tomato is a fruit or a vegetable. It's neither. It's a berry. MM |
RE: Tomato's and nightshade (Probably a dumb question.)
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| But MM, berries are a fruit, a fruit with multiple seeds contained in pulp, which was produced from a single ovary. So tomatoes are a fruit. TBH the definition of a vegetable is hazy, and certainly not scientific, any edible part of a plant can be considered a vegetable, so logically a tomato is a fruit, vegetable and a berry. Under US tax law a tomato is a vegetable. |
RE: Tomato's and nightshade (Probably a dumb question.)
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I hope we're not confusing Deadly Nightshade (Atropa belladonna) and the Black Nightshade (Solanum nigrum), which has fruit that are edible if cooked. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solanum_nigrum Neither crosses with the tomato. Karl |
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