Potato fruit not normally produced on the potato plant: this was due to the cool weather in July that year. Potato fruit The potato fruit is the part of the potato plant that after flowering, produces a poisonous green cherry tomato-like fruit. After flowering, potato plants produce small green fruits that resemble green cherry tomatoes, each containing about 300 seeds. Like all other parts of the plant except the tubers, the fruit contain the toxic alkaloid solanine and are therefore unsuitable for consumption. All new potato varieties are grown from seeds, also called "true potato seed", "TPS" or "botanical seed" to distinguish
Fruit and Spice Park to stay an active garden club member and develop insights on the different fruits that should be planted until she passed away in 1979. In memory of her and Preston B. Bird, South Date County renamed the Redland Fruit and Spice Park to the Preston B. Bird & Mary Heinlein Fruit and Spice Park in 1980. The park contains more than 500 varieties of fruits, nuts, and spice trees. It also includes more than 80 banana trees, 160 varieties of mango trees, more than 40 varieties of grape trees, and 70 varieties of bamboo trees. It also features guava, jackfruit,