Potato fruit?

[FrizzleFreak]

It's true! Potatoes can form fruit, and it has happened right here at my house! It looks like a tomato vine growing off of a potato plant. It happened on our volunteer potatoes, and it was completely possible that they hybridized, except when I googled it, it turns out that it occasionally happens, and that the fruit are poisonous!
YOU JUST LEARNED SOMETHING TODAY! Well, at least I did.

 

[saddina]

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Yep, and Marie Antonette would wear potato blossoms in her hair.

 

[FrizzleFreak]

Well, I knew they blossomed, but I thought they were like spider plants, the flowers just fall off.
BTW, why on earth would she wear potato blossoms? Maybe they had a special variety that had prettier ones, or maybe they were prettier before they were commercially bred?

 

[saddina]

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Neither, they were rare, being a new world plant.