Herbarium of the Bizarre

Tomato

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Today we’re talking about one of my favorite fruits, the tomato. You’re probably pretty familiar with it, as it’s one of the most popular crops in the world, especially for home gardeners. But there might be a thing or two you didn’t know about this very common food plant.


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Information provided by:

  1. “Potatoes, Tomatoes, and Solanine Toxicity (Solanum tuberosum L., Solanum lycopersicum L.)” by Dr. Donald G. Barceloux
  2. Genetic Diversity in Plants, Chapter 8: Genetic Diversity in Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) and its Wild Relatives, by Guillame Bauchet & Mathilde Causse
  3. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0753332221008015
  4. https://www.britannica.com/plant/tomato
  5. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11101-007-9085-x
  6. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10408398.2012.657809
  7. https://www.planetnatural.com/tomato-gardening-guru/history/
  8. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/why-the-tomato-was-feared-in-europe-for-more-than-200-years-863735/
  9. https://www.uvm.edu/news/extension/history-tomatoes
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    Herbarium of the BizarreBy Meredith Hemphill