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potato & tomato soup
Timothy Horrigan schreef
Potato plants only rarely produce fruit but it does happen on occasion (e.g., in NH this summer, which had exceptionally low rainfall.) The fruits look like tomato fruits. They are (probably) not edible. + + + For the record (repeat): potato fruits are not edible, nor are those of most wild tomatos + + + (The leaves and stems of the potato are not edible, hence the fruit is unlikely to be edible either.) + + + This is invalid reasoning. If a plant has a choice, stem and leafs are as inedible as possible, since a plant likes to keep as much of its green parts intact as it can. When plants have noticeable fruits these are usually edible and are almost certainly so when they are red. Otherwise dispersal by animals would not work. Curiously it happens that Atropa bella-donna (same family) has black fruits, edible to birds and some mammals put poisonous to humans, children being especially at risk, the more so since the fruit somewhat resembles a cherry. PvR |
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