Black Tomatos ??? (ID wanted)

[arose62]

I'm a vegie-growing newbie, having moved to a new house a year ago, and inherited a garden mostly producing roma (I think) tomatoes.

Since then, we've experimented with various vegies, and inside the cucumber trellis a plant has grown which I thought was a tomato (mainly from the smell of the leaves). It's started producing fruit ?? and I've done some googling for "black tomato", but all the pics have been far from black, usually mostly red-ish.

At the moment they are still very small, but I'd like to know whether it's worth trying to fight off the current bug assault.

Anyway, here are my pics - do you think it's a tomato???

Cheers,
Andrew

[echnidna]

Deadly Nightshade ?, its in the same family though all the berries I've seen are very small

Theres a fancy seed merchant on ebay who may be helpful, I've forgotten his id.

[echnidna]

Have a browse here (http://images.google.com.au/images?hl=en&q=Black+Tomato&btnG=Search+Images&gbv=2), some look very black

[mic-d]

looks like deadly nightshade to me

Cheers
Michael

[Cliff Rogers]

Me too.

[tea lady]

Me three. Just very big. You must have good s&$% at your place.

[echnidna]

except the leaves don't look like nightshade, let then grow and see what they look like fully matured. Have a good look at the link I posted earlier

[bsrlee]

Keep some/all the seed. If they turn out to be tomatoes then you may have a new cultivar, which could be flogged to one of the big companies for a few bucks (and they will make squillions) or given to friends/neighbours for free. I can see it now "Andrew's Black Tomato". :U

[mic-d]

except the leaves don't look like nightshade, let then grow and see what they look like fully matured. Have a good look at the link I posted earlier

I take back what I said. I think it is a huckleberry
http://www.readytogrow.co.uk/item_pages/fruit/solanum_nigrum.html
But it's what I had known as deadly nightshade, apparently that is really atropa belladona, while this is solanum nigrum (?) and apparently it is edible(?)

CHeers
Michael

[JackoH]

Deadly Nightshade doesn't grow in Oz!

[Pheonix]

Look like Russian tomatoes to me

[arose62]

Deadly Nightshade doesn't grow in Oz!

Not sure about that...

http://www.anbg.gov.au/poison-plants/S-poison.html

Cheers,
Andrew

[mic-d]

Not sure about that...

http://www.anbg.gov.au/poison-plants/S-poison.html

Cheers,
Andrew

Trouble with common names again. What many know as deadly nightshade and what maybe jackoh is talking about is atropa belladona. As I said above, some of us also call solanum nigra deadly nightshade and that I sure is what the plant in the images is.

Cheers
Michael

[doug1]

f you look at the diggers site, http://www.diggers.com.au/ they have black tomato seed

you could email them a question and have yours identified from the photo I believe

Doug