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jackssmirkingrevenge wrote:

rna_duelers wrote:-The Fruit that the serpent tempted Eve with in the Book of Genesis was actually a potato.It became mistakenly referred to as an apple later on when some idiot translated the Bible into French,due to a mix-up with the French name for potato pomme de terre or "apple of the ground."

This is a myth, nowhere in the Bible does it specify what the type of fruit was.

True, it actually says that the fruit came out of a tree.

True, it actually says that the fruit came out of a tree

which narrows it down infintesimally

Well, you lot have clearly never heard of Solanum Crispum (otherwise known as the Chilean potato tree), or the potato fruit.

Ok, the "Potato tree" isn't really a potato tree, but it is a climbing vine related to the potato. The potato fruit really are the fruit of genuine potato plants (Solanum Tuberosum), but don't eat them, they are toxic.

However, I doubt the bible really referred to such things though.

hard to believe this topic would come to the botonology of the potato plant in the bible

I don't know, less likely than the topic being filled with double entendres or innuendos, but if you'd told me that potato fruit would get a mention, I wouldn't have been too surprised.