species 4,227 observations

Tamarillo

Solanum betaceum

Field notes

The tamarillo (Solanum betaceum) is a tree or shrub in the flowering plant family Solanaceae (the nightshade family). It bears an egg-shaped edible fruit. It is common globally, especially in its native South America (as the Quechuan chilltu in Peru, Colombia, and Ecuador, or as tomate andino in other Andean countries), and has been introduced in New Zealand, Nepal, Rwanda, Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Australia, Indonesia, Madeira and Bhutan.

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Range

United States

Greener is more native, amber more introduced; paler is less certain. How this was decided