Do you enjoy tomatoes? They are from a group of plants known as nightshade
I absolutely love tomato sauce. Nightshade? I do know Nightshade but a berry called Belladonna which women used back in the day to make her pupils get bigger to attract man.
The Spanish people discovered the tomato from their contact with the Aztec peoples during the Spanish colonization of the Americas, then brought it to Europe, and, from there, to other parts of the European colonized world during the 16th century.
But the tomato existed in other parts of the world right?
Yes they do. Tomatoes are botanically berry-type fruits, they are considered culinary vegetables as an ingredient or side dish for savory meals.
But tomato is actually a fruit, I heard.
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
is found in other plants in the same family, Solanaceae, which includes such plants as deadly nightshade ("Atropa belladonna"), henbane ("Hyoscyamus niger") and tobacco ("Nicotiana spp."), as well as the food plants eggplant and tomato. These compounds, which protect the potato plant from its predators, are generally concentrated in its leaves, flowers, sprouts, and fruits (in contrast to the tubers). In a summary of several studies, the glycoalkaloid content was highest in the