[ SECRET POST #2666 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2666 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Today I Learned?

[(Anonymous)]

Today I learned about the wonderberry controversy. A guy named Luther Burbank claimed to have created a wonderful, delicious berry and sold it to John Lewis Childs, who sold the seeds. The Rural New Yorker, a newspaper, claimed that it was a nightshade, and thus poisonous, and that started a fight where Burbank offered $10,000 to anyone who could prove that the Wonderberry existed before he created it and it ended with the R.N.Y. being proven right and not getting their money. There were a lot of letters and editorials in the meantime and even professional Solanum botanists were involved.

This started in 1905 and ended in 1909. Kinda. The author of the book wasn't sure the mystery was solved.

Source: Nightshades, The Paradoxical Plants by Charles B. Heiser Jr. It's a really interesting book, if a bit outdated.

Re: Today I Learned?

[(Anonymous)]

Note: Chilli peppers, potatos, eggplant/aubergine, tomatos, husk tomatos, mandrakes, tree tomatos and petunias are all part of the nightshades!