SC - Tomatos as potherbs
Stapleton, Jeanne
jstaplet at mail.law.du.edu
Tue Jan 26 17:45:50 PST 1999
In a message dated 1/26/99 5:11:26 PM Eastern Standard Time,
jstaplet at mail.law.du.edu writes:
<< It is, in fact, related botanically to deadly
nightshade, and it *can* cross-pollinate with
deadly nightshade if they are grown in close
proximity as a garden.
Therefore, there is the chance that once in a
while, one might grow a truly deadly batch of
tomatoes. >>
Source of information, please? This seems highly unlikely to me since green
peppers, potatoes and eggplants are also members of the nightshade family
and cannot crossbreed. Their relationship to nughtshade is about the same as
ours is to the other great apes with which we cannot crossbreed. :-) Thanks
in advance.
Source was live housemate reading a book for writers of
mysteries on clever ways to kill people, and I then
double-checked with tableful of agronomy and
botany grad students at University of Saskatchewan
over Chinese food one night. They all said
it could be done and launched into a lengthy
discussion of why. Which I did not entirely take
in, not being any of the above.
I suggest you check with a grad student in agronomy
or botany or check into some published scholarly
journals about such things.
Berengaria
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