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Is The Tomato Poisonous?

Why was the #tomato considered poisonous for centuries? #Worthing

The first British reference to a tomato appeared in Henry Lyte’s A nieuwe Herball (1578), a direct translation of a Dutch work, and it is unlikely that he actually grew one. John Gerard certainly did, planting seeds from Spain, Italy, and “other hot countries” in his garden in Holborn, he reported in his Herball (1597). Two varieties, one red and the other yellow, of what he called Pomum Aureum…

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