I wanted to try cooking with tomatoes sometime, do you know anything about tomatoes in general?
i love them for one, is the edible, often red, fruit of the plant "Solanum lycopersicum"
Are there other fruits in the Solanum genus?
well The plant belongs to the nightshade family
What else belongs to the nightshade family?
I read in a book that  Its use as a cultivated food may have originated with the indigenous peoples of Peru
Okay, that's pretty cool. Can you tell me anything else about Peru?
if i recall The Spanish discovered the tomato from their contact with the Aztec peoples during the Spanish colonization
That's interesting, but not really related to Peru. Can you tell me anything about the Aztec people though? They sound interesting.
a vegetable ingredient or side dish.
Numerous varieties of the tomato plant are widely grown in temperate climates across the world, with greenhouses allowing for the production of tomatoes throughout all seasons of the year. Tomato plants typically grow to in height. They are vines that have a weak stem that sprawls and typically needs support. Indeterminate tomato plants are perennials in their native habitat, but are cultivated as annuals. Determinate, or bush, plants are annuals that stop growing at a certain height and produce a crop all at once
Bush tomato
Bush tomatoes are the fruit or entire plants of certain nightshade ("Solanum") species native to the more arid parts of Australia. While they are quite closely related to tomatoes ("Solanum lycopersicum"), they might be even closer relatives of the eggplant ("S. melongena"), which they resemble in many details. There are 94 (mostly perennial) natives and 31 (mostly annual) introduced species in Australia.
Bush tomato plants are small shrubs whose growth is encouraged by fire and