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To: SunkenCiv

We all know one or two ancient eggplant relatives.


3 posted on 07/12/2025 11:31:03 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

LOL!

There’s a tiny yellow variety I love, but they aren’t quite tomatoes, they’re more closely related to solanum nigrum (black nightshade). There’s a red variety of this that’s also edible. I mean, you *can* eat deadly nightshade, but it could turn into a major backfire.

Very important family of food plants though — tomatoes, peppers, potatoes, eggplants; more distantly the tomatillo and nantucket ground cherry; non-food crops like tobacco; various decorative stuff like petunias and nicotiana, and some that are at least somewhat poisonous, such as chinese lanterns, jerusalem cherry, poinsettia, oleander, datura... probably forgetting some. :^)


7 posted on 07/12/2025 11:40:37 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (The moron troll Ted Holden believes that humans originated on Ganymede.)
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