Strawberry found inside tomato, says gardener
Esther Walker, a 48-year-old woman from Cheltenham, Gloucester, England, says she cut open a tomato growing in her garden and found what appears to be a strawberry growing inside.
I say it's tomato seeds surrounded by tomato goop.
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Definitely tomat stuff, even on the lowres picture it's clearly discernable.
eeeeeeew. that's creepy for some reason.
How did she manage to cut so neatly around the "strawberry" given that she didn't know the strawberry was inside. Most people slice first and notice later.
re: #3 - Ditto - same thought upon heading into Comments section
"Tomacco!!!"
It's such a hoax!!
the strawberry xenomorph always needs a host and is known to have acid for blood.
Most def a hoax, the story came from the SunUK
If I remember my botany correctly, strawberries and tomatoes develop from completely different parts of the flower. Strawberries are swollen "receptacles," the structures on which flowers rest, while tomatoes arise from the floral ovary. Maybe (maybe maybe) you'd get this if the two plants were growing very closely together - like a tree growing around a fence - but the flowers would have to be basically in contact with each other from the start.
So yeah: I call hoax.
The island of doctor moreau's younger sister.
Looks like tomato seeds inside a tomato to me. Proof that Europe has crackpots, too, I guess.
Two great tastes that make me feel sick together
<redundant> This looks shopped. I can tell from some of the pixels and I've seen quite a few shops in my life.</redundant>
Actually, I've seen strawberries do when gowing next zucchini plants in my mother's garden. How it happens (I think):
The strawberry sends out shoots between plant beds (the shoots will mat down between plants looking like straw, and it's where we get the "straw" in strawberries). The fruit develops on the end of the shoots.
If one of these end shoots hits a flower of another plant, it can start to grow fruit on top of the flower. That flower in turn can grow around the strawberry and when it becomes a fruit the strawberry will be in side that fruit.
I've also heard of growers doing this on purpose with melons, so I suppose it's possible accidentally (or with some manipulation, which is more likely) with tomatoes. I have found strawberries twice inside zucchini flowers, but they hadn't yet become fruit.
Aha,but note this womans address:
"Esther, 48, of Cheltenham, Gloucs, said: “It definitely looks like a strawberry"
Thats where good `ol GCHQ resisdes I believe...no doubt its one of their classic
"EM field experiments which change tomatoes into strawberry breeders via quantum entanglement" experiments.
This is how the elite will conquer all,through the tomatoes into strawberries route.
Its incredibly obvious isn't it?
So did it, um, I don't know, TASTE LIKE strawberry???
wait a minute, that doesn't even look like a tomato to me
It kind of looks like an alien head with the top sliced off, brains exposed to the world.
/you're welcome for the image :p
Black helicopters are flying in a strawberry shaped formation over my house now,so I wanted to say:
I was joking in my last post HONEST!I just made it up!
Ah,they're leaving.thank the gods.
@3, Perhaps this is one of many strawatos from the same plant. If she bit into one or sliced one for cooking earlier when she discovered it--it makes sense that she would dissect the next specimen off the same plant.
Also, I don't think it's a hoax, but it could be misidentified. I say we call a tomato expert.
Looks like the LHC is already messing with Earth :)
@3&4 - I did think that at first, but then possibly she may have peeled the other strawberry half away and pair it up for a photo snap.
I would expect also to see the strawberries stem, but it may have got caught in growth, but continued to feed off the tomato.
Though the sceptic in me would say she cut a tomato in 2 and put a strawberry there - but that would beg to say that she was very very bored if she was to try make 'news' from it.
LOL.
It wouldn't be red if it was inside the tomato all the time. Ever seen a strawberry that grew under a leaf? Yeah, it's white and small. A strawberry inside another fruit would be white...
This is either a hoax, or something else (mutation?) inside a tomato.
Maybe it was a vegetarian Killer Tomato. :P
i say it's The Breeders album cover.
I'm with TRR, @#15: proof's in the eating.
I first discovered strawberry tomatoes in August 2006 (and I have a better camera ;)
http://becksposhnosh.blogspot.com/2006/08/alien-tomato.html
For those who say it doesn't look like a tomato, there are lots of varieties of tomato with different sizes, colours, patterns and shapes. Golden Roma tomatoes look like that (without the thing in the middle of course). But it could be another yellow oval variety.
I am intrigued not only by the fact that the tomato has been so neatly cut away from the "strawberry", but moreso by the fact that the thing in the middle looks intact even though they say it has been tasted.
I agree with post #22. I've worked a long time in greenhouse and gardens and such, and there is no type of fruit that ripens without adequate sunlight. If a strawberry had really grown inside the tomato, it would have been white or light green. That being said, if you look closely at the seed patch you can see that it is slightly transparent, resembling the seeds of a pomegranate or an unripe tomato more that that of a strawberry.
I had this happen to me a while ago when I had the tomato for more than a week. I think the tomato was drying out...
The plant needs sunlight for its fruit to ripen, but I'm not sure the light has to hit the fruit itself.
I've picked green tomatoes before a frost and some of them do indeed ripen inside and out of the sun. The rest I make into pickles or dip them in cornmeal and fry them. Yum.
As a resident of Cheltenham, I feel the need to point out Cheltenham is certainly NOT in Gloucester. If you had written "Cheltenham, Gloucestershire", that would have been correct. Sorry for the pedantry. :-)
An orange growing inside an apple was supposedly found a few years ago.