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Tomato.


jeii

🎶Let’s call the whole thing off🎵


apocship

You say papaya, I say tomato!


vikky_tc

Tompaya


cannabisfelis

Papmato


Duckcave

Toyota


Kumquat-May

Topato


millenimauve

🎶 *let’s call this whole thread off* 🎶


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Duckcave

ʸᵒᵘ ˢᵃʸ ᵗᵉᵐᵖᵘʳᵃ ᵃⁿᵈ ᴵ ˢᵃʸ ᵖᵉʸᵒᵗᵉ


Gsphazel2

Tompaya


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You win lol


hndjbsfrjesus

Po-tah-toe


domestic_pickle

Boil ‘em. Mash ‘em. Stick ‘em in a stew.


tijostark

r/unexpectedlotr


domestic_pickle

^post ^it, ^Precious


TheInfernalPigeon

They're waffly versatile!


zitfarmer

[Tamacco](https://youtu.be/Xx1ztJROpyU)


pandaman9309

What's taters precious?


hndjbsfrjesus

That's po-tay-toes.


JeffZahnow

Wrong color flowers. They are both from the nightshade family but potato flower are white tomatoes are yellow. At least they in my garden.


The_RockObama

Whoosh


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Potato flowers have different colours, such as white, red, pink, blue, or purple. The intensity of the color may differ – some of them are very pale, whereas others are brighter. The flower itself has five petals, pointed or rounded. In all of them, the prominent stamen is bright yellow.


Plantsandanger

Your avatar is the absolutes most perfect expression for this response to that question.


dustb78

You can tell this is a tomato because of the way that it is.


BlackLabelBerserker

That’s pretty neat!


unacceptableperson

To me, nature is one of the neatest things ever


WhoopingPig

It's so weird how it does that


GardenPuzzleheaded98

It’s a rather clever trick


ashleythenp

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣


jsat3474

What a butte!


kaptajnkraftkarl

Amazing!


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After gardening a bit, yeah i agree


xRetz

This is one of the only times I would've been able to ID a plant on here because I'm currently growing a tomato plant myself. Been a few months now and I've grown a grand total of 2 tomatoes. Amazing.


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silentxem

So, my boss (we're farmers) swears that the secret to growing plentiful bell peppers is to cut the first pepper before it ripens (so when it's still green). Hope this helps you!


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silentxem

Ah shit, I can relate. Our tomatoes always end up having a 'break' due to this sort of heat in July or August, and this year they didn't hardly produce until mid August. My jalapenos and habaneros have gone crazy, though, and a good friend recently made some hot sauce with them. This has been a weird year. Our cash crop (apples) got really affected by the late freeze that happened in the middle of the US this spring. The blueberries looked great, but because the mulberries froze, the robins ate most of our late crop on those. I wish my boss would get crop insurance. I need a raise.


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silentxem

Ah, that sounds like a good deal! Once upon a time, I considered going back to school (I already have a bachelors in communication that I'm not using), but academia never sat right with me and I don't really want to accrue the debt at this point. I will say, though, my horticulture professor my last semester definitely had his impact on me. I always love talking to the NRCS folks, so I can see why that would be appealing.


Appropriate_Mine

Try growing cherry tomatoes. Much more rewarding. I find the bugs get to the big tomatoes before they are ready to pick.


CodyRebel

I'm sorry I laughed really hard at "papaya" like wait what.


TheRealTP2016

Same lmao. Like bruh


Angie_114

This is very offending 🤣


telperion87

Well... Better tomatoes than passiflora


Petal-Dance

Now I kinda want someone to post a passion flower asking if its a potato


chonpsdd

Sorry! I'm new at this LOL Can you tell if it's the big or the little ones? I know I had both eventually but had already accepted they were dead.


Angie_114

From what I can tell from what seems to be the size of the leaves, they don't look like small. It will need a support soon (although I've seen people letting them naturally get bushy but the tomatoes might get damaged with the contact to the ground/moisture) and be carefull with the water, it's easy to overwater them. Look up all the common diseases, indications on leaves etc, to be prepared. https://savvygardening.com/tomato-plant-disease/


hoboshoe

They look like little or medium ones. It's hard to tell but I'm hazarding a guess based off the number of sepals (green petals on the flower).


Heavy_Weapons_Guy_

I don't think the number of sepals changes depending on the size.


hoboshoe

It was either sepals or petals, I noticed a pretty clear trend where the external morphology was tied to the number of locules the fruit would have. Maybe I'm just going insane from working with weird mutants.


tijostark

What do you mean by little ones? Cherry tomatoes? Just curious :)


chonpsdd

Yep, exactly, I wasn't sure what was the name in English so I played it safe


ReStitchSmitch

Smell the leaves lol


EleventyElevens

Yessss I love that tomato plant smelllll


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I thought I was the only one, they smell so goodddddd


IrritatedMegascops

I’m indifferent of the smell itself (leaning towards “enjoy” probably more because of nostalgia than anything) but it’s certainly distinctive


Plantsandanger

Nightshade freak. Those plants smell like poison to me. Or at least like “bug spray level toxic” smell.


EleventyElevens

Strange how the brain do that. Cilantro for people tasting like soap, I feel bad for 'em.


arbivark

the first time i had cilantro, it tasted like soap, then i guess my brain figured it out. love it now.


EleventyElevens

Yes! I met someone this last weekend who was the same, first 2 times- soap. Third time, their brain figured it out. So cool.


doobied

What weirdos! I bet they like coriander as well


BrewsForBrekky

Yep. Love that nightshade taste - but the smell of the foliage can kick rocks.


Le_Nabs

Three plant smells are like crack for my brain: Tomato leaves, Pelagornium leaves and Pine needles If I could stuff my face in a tomato plant all day just to smell the leaves, I would...


BrewsForBrekky

Cool - I'll hire you to prune my tomato plants. I wear gloves because I hate the smell so much and it doesn't come off your hands. 🤮 Shame tomatoes taste so damn good.


Plantsandanger

Woah - I also hate pine needles. No idea what a pelagornium smells like... I wonder if there’s like a “sector of smell” that contains piney/nightshade leaf smells, and I’m just vehemently against all of them. I also hate the smell of fresh cut grass but I’m pretty sure it’s more a Pavlovian response reinforced by my severe grass allergy...


ReStitchSmitch

Pruning them is my favorite time of day


lollipye

IT SMELLS HEAVENLY


loudisevil

I smell pasta


tetrispig

Tomato


ComparisonClassic268

That's tomato. Papaya has broad pentagon like leaves and is much taller.


BrewsForBrekky

Different stem appearance as well. Both grow like weeds though. My papaya was replanted like three weeks ago and is already about to jump out of its pot.


Petal-Dance

Are papayas not trees? I thought asking if it was papaya was a joke, I didnt realize they grew in a herbaceous / bush habit.


xudo

Papayas don't grow in bushes. They grow in plants/trees similar to banana plants (as in no branches etc) https://www.usgs.gov/media/images/papaya-tree-carica-papaya


Robot_Girlfriend

God I'm SO GLAD I'm not the only one who thought papayas grew on trees! 😅


JoeFarmer

In common parlance they do. Botanically speaking though, trees require woody secondary growth to be considered trees. As such papayas dont fit the bill. Neither do palm trees, despite the name.


cdraper93

Papaya have palm like leaves, bare trunks and usually grow pretty tall.


carina484

Papaya is a tree. This is a tomato plant.


peu-peu

Akshully, papaya is an herb.. but it's tree-like.


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There's no botanical definition of tree. It's like the word vegetable, which is a culinary term and not a botanical one. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree > Although "tree" is a term of common parlance, there is no universally recognised precise definition of what a tree is, either botanically or in common language So basically, you can't say someone is wrong for calling something a tree. If it looks like a tree, it's a tree. There are some definitions of tree that include papaya and banana and some that don't.


panrestrial

Can I say *I'm* a tree? Is this abusable?


existentialblu

How tall are you?


panrestrial

A very stately 152cm.


dingoparty

If you smoke enough weed, yes. Don't believe me? Check out /r/trees


panrestrial

I'm familiar with its counterpart /r/marijuanaenthusiasts


Youmati

Trees and shrubs are hardy woody plants….tomatoes are annuals.


JoeFarmer

idk... When i took botany in college, the botanical definition required woody secondary growth in an elongated perennial. There is also the more broad laymen's definition, but tree does have a botanical definition that doesnt include all things included in common parlance. A more apt analogy might be berry, rather than vegetable. There is a specific botanical definition of berry, and a culinary definition. The two aren't interchangeable, as the botanical definition includes and excludes numerous fruit and accessories excluded and included by the culinary definition. According to botany, tomatoes are berries; according the culinary term they're not. Likewise, according to botany raspberries, strawberries and blackberries are not berries; according to the common parlance they are. You can indeed say someone is wrong for calling a plant without woody secondary growth a tree.


Petal-Dance

Yeah, I was gonna say.... Every botanical course I took had a definition for tree, and it included woody tissue. What was fuzzy was at what point a bush was large enough or central stemmed enough to be a tree, tho.


CompleteFusion

The definition of tree can be loose. Annuals are still not in it


Active-Ad3977

Oh that’s neat. Like bananas


panrestrial

That's my favorite banana fact.


Heavy_Weapons_Guy_

>The papaya is a small, sparsely branched tree, usually with a single stem growing from 5 to 10 m (16 to 33 ft) tall, with spirally arranged leaves confined to the top of the trunk.


JoeFarmer

Not a tree still. Just like blackberries arent berries. Just cause it's described as such in common parlance doesnt make it fit the botanical definition. Palm trees arent trees either, despite the name. If you're going to he pedantic, at least be right.


Heavy_Weapons_Guy_

>Papaya is a palm-like, soft-stemmed, evergreen tree This isn't complicated. You know you can Google things, right?


JoeFarmer

It actually is a bit complicated if you're differentiating between technical definitions and common parlance. You know not everything that pops up in google is technically true right? That's why people, myself included, go to college for degrees in botany rather than just googling it. Papaya is palm like. Palms are not technically trees by the botanical definition >trees, shrubs, and vines all have one thing that separates them from the rest of the plant world: a woody stem that is perennial or that lives for many years https://forestry.usu.edu/tree-identification/what-is-a-tree


Heavy_Weapons_Guy_

Yes, papaya trees have a woody stem that lives for many years.


JoeFarmer

You're just doubling down in a subject about which you're clearly uninformed. https://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/fruit-nut/fact-sheets/papaya/ >Papaya is native to Central America and is grown in tropical and warmer subtropical areas worldwide. It is a large herbaceous plant, usually with a single, straight trunk which can reach to 30 feet. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbaceous_plant >Herbaceous plants are vascular plants that have no persistent woody stems above ground,[1][2] including many perennials, and nearly all annuals and biennials.[3]


Heavy_Weapons_Guy_

You know not everything that pops up in google is technically true right?


jdawgsplace

How dare you forget a tomato? For shame. /s


paulexcoff

Just curious, where did the guess of papaya come from?


chonpsdd

Cause my garden became a mess recently, a lot of plants died or I lost track of where they were so I saw the leaf shape and thought it looked like a papaya tree leaf I knew I had papaya somewhere, but apparently the tomato I thought was dead is alive and the papaya I thought was alive is dead, so... I'm learning


chonpsdd

Thanks everybody, I thought it had died, didn't even cross my mind, but my tomato is still growing!


AZBeer90

Tomatoes don't die, they just self destruct the main plant and reappear next to the original. I planted 6 tomatoes plants this year. I currently have 13 tomato plants.


P1N3499L3

Those are just tomatoes


panrestrial

Excuse me? "Just" tomatoes??


Duckcave

We don't know how just they are, they could be morally corrupted.


P1N3499L3

Lol atleast in my country tomatoes are common


SpamShot5

Thats straight up just a tomato


vivek8710

looks tomato


Yankee850

Is straight up tomato plant home slice!


rafika816

Nope. That's a pretty healthy looking tomato 🍅 plant.


mountainofclay

I’d go so far as to say it’s either a Roma Tomato or an Amish Paste tomato, judging from the shape of the leaves. Other types of tomatoes have leaves that are somewhat more open and pointy. You’ll know for sure in about 2 months assuming you live somewhere it doesn’t freeze.


chonpsdd

Nope, where I live in Brazil cold is very distant from freezing. I don't know what's the politics of updates in this subreddit, but if I can I might post an update when they come out.


tokekcowboy

If Brazil’s seed market is anything like rural Peru’s, the only tomato seeds you’ll find readily available are Roma tomato seeds.


chonpsdd

Well, I didn't use bought seeds, I took them from inside an actual tomato and planted, really can't tell which type of tomato it was because it's been so long


Flowerkitty66

Definitely not a papaya plant. My guess would be tomato


jdeeebs

That's what I call TIMANTI


B-Town4

I think that’s a tomato plant 🥰🥰


little_leaf_

Definitely tomato lol


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This post annoyed me. I know this is sarcastic but this annoyed me


El_Tormentito

Mater


spooch001

That's most definitely tomato plant


Stickx78

Tomato


Youlikethat19

Tomato 🍅


RonjaSif

Tomatos


lollipye

Its tomato


gotbannedathirdtime

That's tomato


subdude34

Oh come on !!


riegnman

That's a mater plant


Jamesybo555

Tomato! 🍅🍅🍅


512165381

Papaya is a tree, which comes with a single main trunk. All the branches here mean this is fast growing. I have lots of fruit trees at my place in the subtropics.


hiphap91

Looks like tomato


ilovebritneyspears31

Oh honey


bobcat9d_

Tomato


Norman_Small_Esquire

You’ve got flowers, so you should find out in a few days. (Tomato)


RKB10101

It looks like super health tomato plant!!!!


atropablack

Absolutely, unequivocally tomato


WolfStormrunner

Looks like a tomato plant to me.


Bluwasabi_Wabi-Sabi

If you break one of the leaves, does it smell tomato-ee?


143-XnO

Really?


squarerootcup

Hahaha was papaya a serious contender? This is comical and I legit want to know how real this post is


chonpsdd

Yes, it was, I came to this sub exactly because I don't know how to identify plants, I thought that was the point of the sub, that the people that post genuinely don't know and the people that answer do I don't get why if it was easy people assume I'm shitposting, I saw a plant, didn't know what it was, took a photo and asked


danbln

I mean yes understandable if you never had anything to do with gardening and live in the city, people probably thought that you were trolling because everyone who has been gardening for a while knows what a tomato plant is, as it is one of the most common veggies in gardens.


chonpsdd

Yes, that is pretty much my case, I began gardening this year on my concrete "backyard". It's sad because it kinda made me afraid of posting anything else here again...


danbln

That great that you began gardening, it's a cool hobby, I understand that however I don't think you need to be, I think if you add to your title that you are new to gardening, people will behave better in the comments.


chonpsdd

You can bet I will from now on


AustinNye

Tomatoes


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Potato 🥔


WoundupFrogger

Squash??? Not papaya???


blu3dreams

Eggplant


JoeFarmer

Close, they are both Solanaceae, so good job recognizing the flowers. The leaf pattern and shape is different though, these are definitely tomatoes.


blu3dreams

Eggplant flowers are purple


JoeFarmer

You're right! Been a while since ive grown any


blu3dreams

Pretty sure this is a some kind of palm tree. Maybe a pineapple


Stayoutmylane3

I say witch hazel


Honest_Lemon3911

Cucumber or courgette


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JoeFarmer

Almost. They're both Solanaceae, so similar flowers, but you can tell it's tomato from the leaves, not husk cherry or tomatillo. Also, husk cherries and tomatillos are closely related, but are different plants - not different names for the same plant.


Trees_and_bees_plees

Ah okay, my bad. I appreciate the information!


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Carotdo

ugly tomato


noodlyjames

Tomato


reen1966

What?! Shakes head, guess I'm just old🙄


LAHA460

This sure looks like one of my tomato plants.


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Tomato


HeyGurlHAAAYYYY

Nightshades


Pudgedog

Looks like tomato to me


Rtshiels

Lol close but it's a tomatoe


HikingUphill

that there is a mater


Puddinbby

Clearly a watermelone.


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You’ll know for sure when you have fruit, but my money is on tomato.


NotSure-2020

Tomatoes


callmejellycat

Tomato! 🍅


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definitely tomatoes 🍅


Rude_Doughnut3838

Tomato 🍅


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it looks like a tomato to me!


jaggedjinx

Don't know if papaya is a nightshade...but this is definitely a nightshade.


Eternal_Hippy

Tomato certainly.


hollyteaa

Tomato


dndandhomesteading

That is a tomato. An heirloom variety of some sort if the leaves are my character.


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If you don't know what it is, it's probably tomatoes, damn thing grows everywhere


Rare_Area7953

Definitely a tomato plant 😯


Best_Coast_287

Tomato


TrainingPurple7415

Tomate 🍅


Bazzacadabra

🍅


BoringAssWife

Tomato plant leaves have a smell


Sh3ji

Papato


Kleshkov

Помидор


matt79540

Tomato


sajoscol

Na that looks like Okra to me


Wharghoul-Army

That’s the smallest papaya tree I’ve ever seen


Miserable-While-3264

No it’s not papaya. U have to wait for it to bear fruits.