Thread: Pepino Dulce
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Old 31-10-2003, 10:32 AM
Victoria Clare
 
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Default Pepino Dulce

"Franz Heymann" wrote in
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I am a pessimist. There are so many poisonous members of the Solanum
tribe that I would be more than worried about eating any one other
than the commonly culivated ones like potatos and tomatos.


Solanum muricatum has been in cultivation for a very long time: it's an
Inca crop.

In fact, I think that makes it a longer-established edible than the tomato,
which I understand was bred into edibility quite recently (C16th or so).

Victoria