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Wednesday, December 30, 2009

Wolfpeach

Welcome to Tomatoes!

The word tomato comes from a word in the Nahuatl language, tomatl. French botanist Joseph Pitton de Tournefort provided the Latin botanical name, Lycopersicon esculentum, to the tomato. 


The Latin name translates to "wolfpeach" - peach because it was round and wolf because it was mistakenly considered to be toxic due to its botanical connection to the Solanaceae or nightshade family.