the early blue ( a misnomer i'm thinking ) potatoes in the perennial garden are still blooming ( top photo )...and some of those blooms are morphing into seed pods/fruits ( second photo )which is something i have never seen on a potato plant before...potatoes and tomatoes are both members of the same family and so it makes sense that some of the plant structures would resemble one another...these two plants are relatives and neighbors in the garden so a comparison was simple...the third photo is of a very young tomato ( which may not develop much more given the weather ) and the fourth photo is of the potato pod...you can see the resemblance in the calyces even though the tomatoes is much larger...i am all curiosity to see if the pods on the early blue have enough time to mature...domesticated potato seeds may not be tremendously viable, but i'd like to have some anyway.
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