The plant kingdom is full of surprising doppelgangers, and these fruits that look like tomatoes are no different! Let’s learn how to differentiate them for good!
Botanical Name: Shepherdia argentea
Silver Buffaloberry is a thorny shrub that produces red, fleshy berries in clusters that look like miniature tomatoes. These have a tarty taste and you can consume them raw or make jams!
Botanical Name: Prunus tomentosa
Nanking Cherry is also famous as drupes, because of its fleshy outer skin and hard seed inside, reminiscent of Sweet Million, a tomato variety. From a distance, these berries, together in a crate, will look like a bunch of tomatoes for sure!
Botanical Name: Solanum betaceum
Also famous as tomato tree, and for a reason! Look at those fruits – don’t they resemble like elongated tomatoes? These have a deep red skin and the flesh has a sweet-sour taste.
Botanical Name: Diospyros virginiana
Next on the list of fruits that look like tomatoes is persimmon – however, its color gives it away. Let these be on the tree to overripe, and you’ll be hard-pressed to tell the difference though!
Botanical Name: Solanum linnaeanum
It is traditionally known as the ‘Apple of Sodom’ and produces globular toxic berries around 2-3.5 cm in size, which look strikingly similar to golden jubilee tomatoes!
Botanical Name: Solanum tuberosum
Yes! Potatoes flower, and if you let them pollinate, they will fruit, and Lord! These have to be the most realistic fruits that look like tomatoes! We”ll let this picture do the talking!
Note: These are inedible – they contain solanine!
Botanical Name: Solanum americanum
Black Nightshade’s petite green fruits, resembling green zebra cherry tomatoes, turn into shiny-black little fruits on maturity. Its leaves and
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