Potato fruit 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 it from seed tubers. New varieties grown from seed can be propagated vegetatively by planting tubers, pieces of
Mirabelle plum from Lorraine, France, making true Mirabelle Plums almost impossible to get in the US. Mirabelle plum Mirabelle plum, also known as mirabelle prune or cherry plum (Prunus domestica" subsp. "syriaca), is a cultivar group of plum trees of the genus "Prunus". It is believed that the plum was cultivated from a wild fruit grown in Anatolia. The mirabelle is identified by its small, oval shape, smooth-textured flesh, and especially by its red, or dark yellow colour which becomes flecked in appearance. They are known for being sweet and full of flavour. The fruit is primarily used in fruit preserves and