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CAN YOU TELL THESE APART?
It looks like a little yellow cherry tomato in the garden. It is a toxic nightshade
SAFE
cherry tomato
Solanum lycopersicum
soft red fruit, compound leaves, no spines on the stems
TOXIC
horse nettle
Solanum carolinense
yellow tomato-like berry, sharp spines on stems and leaf veins, star-shaped flowers
How to tell them apart
Soft red fruit, no spines = tomato. Yellow berry with spiny stems = horse nettle.
You can tell them apart right now. The real question is whether you'll still know in three weeks — BloomEDU quizzes you on this pair until the name sticks.
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