nightshade

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• CommissarVulpin@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’ve always seen tomatillos for sale in supermarkets (western US). Are they not common elsewhere?

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• chuckleslord@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Sorry, eggplant is a better name for them. Aubergine is just a color.

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  • xylol@leminal.space ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Like orange?

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    • chuckleslord@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Unless you have another, separate word for the color that you don’t have for the fruit, I’m not certain the relevance.

      The eggplant looks like an egg when it’s growing. It’s such a wonderfully descriptive word that came to English first. Aubergine is a French many-times-borrowed word from Arabic. Very pretty word, but not super great identifier for the fruit. Thus it is just the name for the color (in my mind and in North America)

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    • Batman@sopuli.xyz ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The fruit is where we got the word for the color! There was no color word for orange until the fruit started becoming known and traded around the globe. Boggled my fucking mind as a kid when I learned that.

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• ryedaft@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  black nightshade

  Honestly does not sound like something you should eat

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  • LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Oh shit I’ve been eating these for years along with millions of people. Are we all going to die?

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    • ryedaft@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’s the name I’m on about. It’s not really mainstream friendly. I’m sure they are lovely.

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  • xylol@leminal.space ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Let’s not be racist now

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    • Phineaz@feddit.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Well, I may be a cannibal, but I don’t discriminate!

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  • PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I mean I’m no botanist, but aren’t all of the crops mapped onto the little girl actually just nightshades with extra steps?

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    • exasperation@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Every plant named in this meme is a nightshade.

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• Shayeta@feddit.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I tried growing tomatillo, the damn thing is shooting flowers but nothing coming of it. The tomato plant next to it is already bearing fruit, almost ripe!

  Screw that thing, if I don’t see any fruiting by the end of the month I’m ripping it out of the ground!

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  • xylol@leminal.space ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Probably need at work ast two more tomatillo plants, and those might need two more each

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  • Geometrinen_Gepardi@sopuli.xyz ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Tomatillos aren’t self pollinating, they need a buddy plant. I have two side by side in my garden and both are producing fruit.

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    • Shayeta@feddit.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I did NOT know that, thank you. I’m going to prep a few more in my hydroponic, hopefully they’re not out of season just yet.

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