These Fruits That Look Like Tomatoes can make anyone confused and scratch their heads!
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!
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Fruits That Look Like Tomatoes
1. Silver Buffaloberry
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!
2. Nanking Cherry
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!
3. Tamarillo
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.
4. Persimmon
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!
5. Devil’s Apple
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!
6. Potato
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!
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7. American Black Nightshade
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 berries are poisonous to humans and livestock.
8. Peruvian Groundcherry
Botanical Name: Physalis peruviana
Goldenberries have a bright yellow to orange color, which makes them appear a lot like gold nugget tomatoes. These juicy fruits taste great in salads, and you can also make jams using them!
9. Bittersweet Nightshade
Botanical Name: Solanum dulcamara
These oval red fruits look like a bunch of miniature tomatoes from a distance – however, these are a bit elongated. Note that the berries are toxic.
10. Thai Eggplant
Botanical Name: Solanum melongena
This one looks like a tomato that has stripes! The plant produces small, green-yellow to purple color fruits with a mildly bitter taste.
11. Litchi Tomato
Botanical Name: Solanum sisymbriifolium
These cherry-flavored tomato-like berries can be a great addition to jam and pickles. You can actually use them in lieu of tomatoes if you develop the taste!
12. Horsenettle
Botanical Name: Solanum carolinense
Last on the list of tomato lookalikes is this guy – look at the picture above! Like a bunch of unripe tomatoes with stripes, right? But beware! These are not edible!
