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The Nightshade Family (mander.xyz)

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Potatoes? One of the "family" just decided to be a tuber?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 18 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (1 children)

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 one of them is eggplant.

[–] Narauko 3 points 16 hours ago

Eggplant out here catching strays.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 19 hours ago

Wild. TIL. Thanks.

[–] chuckleslord 2 points 1 day ago

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