# Please help me identify this fruit bearing plant. **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [September 22, 2016, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-identify-this-fruit-bearing-plant/766599 "2016-09-22T20:49:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2016, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-identify-this-fruit-bearing-plant/766599/1 "2016-09-22T20:49:16Z")
Just now, I saw a plant I’ve never seen before. It was a small tree, with egg shaped fruits that were turning red with dark purple striations. Please excuse the aphids, it’s not in my garden or it’d have ladybugs to the rescue. [Here is the foliage,](http://i226.photobucket.com/albums/dd69/brujaja/KIMG0321_zpsrhh7dput.jpg) and [here is the fruit.](http://i226.photobucket.com/albums/dd69/brujaja/KIMG0320_zps7b3pf5zy.jpg) Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![Duke\_of\_Rat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Duke\_of\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke_of_Rat)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2016, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-identify-this-fruit-bearing-plant/766599/2 "2016-09-22T21:02:45Z")
Tamarillo? ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2016, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-identify-this-fruit-bearing-plant/766599/3 "2016-09-22T21:19:30Z")
Aubergine (eggplant) I think. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2016, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-identify-this-fruit-bearing-plant/766599/4 "2016-09-22T21:22:41Z")
Oh, although the leaves do look more like tamarillo ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2016, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-identify-this-fruit-bearing-plant/766599/5 "2016-09-22T21:45:47Z")
> [@Duke\_of\_Rat](#): > > Tamarillo? > [@Mangetout](#): > > Oh, although the leaves do look more like tamarillo I agree with tamarillo, aka tree tomato _Solanum betaceum_. [Fruit.](http://www.gardeningknowhow.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/tomato-tree1-400x266.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2016, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-identify-this-fruit-bearing-plant/766599/6 "2016-09-23T00:05:46Z")
I think you’re cute for apologizing on behalf of someone else’s aphid infestation. The gardeners equivalent of having spinach in your teeth. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2016, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-identify-this-fruit-bearing-plant/766599/7 "2016-09-23T03:26:05Z")
Aha! That’s exactly what it is. There may be one less fruit on that tree tomorrow. Er, in the interest of science. 🙂