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Re:Why Italy Fell Out of Love with Cilantro by fuzztester on Sunday July 07, 2024 @04:37PM (#40900278)
And interestingly, many of them are from the nightshade family, the https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solanaceae .
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Re:Why Italy Fell Out of Love with Cilantro by throwup238 on Sunday July 07, 2024 @11:36PM (#40902407)
Whats interesting is why nightshades diversified and selectively bred into so many staple plants in the new world but the nightshades in the old world did not.

Black nightshade berries native to Europe are easily mistakable for the latter stages of potato plant development, for example.

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