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What do potatoes and tomatoes have in common?

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Tomatoes, potatoes, and peppers have several attributes in common: All are members of the nightshade family (Solanaceae). All are native to the Americas and were first domesticated by Native Americans. After the European conquest of the Americas, all three crops gradually spread around the world. 24 июл. 2017 г.


How are potatoes and tomatoes similar?

Potatoes belong to a small family, the Nightshade or Solanaceous family. The other members are tomatoes, peppers and eggplants. Potatoes resemble tomatoes more than the other family members. Potatoes and tomatoes can share diseases, like this year's large problem with late blight.

Are tomatoes and potatoes from the same family?

Tomatoes and potatoes are both members of the same family, Solanum or nightshade. Because they are brethren so to speak, it seems logical that planting tomatoes and potatoes together would be a perfect marriage.

What family are potatoes and tomatoes in?

Solanaceae, the nightshade, or potato, family of flowering plants (order Solanales), with 102 genera and nearly 2,500 species, many of considerable economic importance as food and drug plants. Among the most important of those are potato (Solanum tuberosum); eggplant (S. melongena); tomato (S.

Why tomato and potato is in the same genus?

Solution : Solanum is the largest genus of flowering plants which includes few economically important plants, e.g., potato, tomato, tobacco and brinjal. All these plants show some common morphological structures related to vegetative and reproductive similarities. So, they have the same common name of genus Solanum.

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