Did You Know Potatoes Produce Poisonous Berries? | What Is Potato Fruit? | Guten Yardening

Sometimes the potato plants you grow produce little green berries on top. As you might expect, since potatoes are part of the nightshade family, these potato berries are part of the plant that you cant eat. The berries are filled with a glycoalkaloid called solanine. (The same solanine that makes potatoes exposed to the sun turn green).

Though the berry looks like an unripe tomato, the solanine levels inside make it inedible and the berry can actually poison someone who tries to eat it. However, inside those little berries are something very exciting.

While we usually grow potatoes from seed potatoes to ensure that the next generation of potatoes is true to the parent plant, it is also possible to grow potatoes from the true potato seeds inside of these potato berries.

In this video, we talk about everything you should know about potato berries, and some of the reasons why we don't grow potatoes from true potato seeds.

We hope you enjoy this video and learn something new from it.


Thanks for watching.

If you are interested in being a part of our Yardening Community Initiative, contact us at: [email protected]

If you like my hat, you can get it here: https://amzn.to/3nmiYQl

Shop With Us: https://gutenyardening.wixsite.com/we...

Join our public Facebook group: Search Guten Yardening

Social Media Presence:
Follow us on twitter:   / gutenyardening  
And on Instagram:   / gutenyardening  

Theme Song: Country Cue 1 by Audionautix is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...)
Artist: http://audionautix.com/

What will happen if you try growing true potato seeds?

#PotatoBerries #PotatoFruit #TruePotatoSeeds

Some of our research comes from these resources:
https://www.canr.msu.edu/news/what_ar...

https://www.cultivariable.com/potato-....