Currant Tomato (Solanum pimpinellifolium)

Family: Solanaceae | Edibility: Choice Edible (4/5)

Currant Tomato, Solanum pimpinellifolium, is a wild tomato species native to Ecuador and Peru. There are annual. biennial, and perennial varieties. Other common names are German Raising Tomato and Tomatillo. The branches are slender and initially erect, becoming procumbent or decumbent. The fruits are small, red, globose and edible. It can be eaten raw, cooked, or dried for later use.

Edible Parts & Harvest Seasons

Edible Parts: Fruit, Berries, Nuts/Seeds

Harvest Seasons: Early Summer, Fall, Late Summer

Flavor & Culinary Uses

Sweet and delicious, it makes an excellent dessert fruit and is also used in savoury dishes as a vegetable. — Fruit - raw, cooked or dried for later use.; Sweet and delicious, it makes an excellent dessert fruit and is also used in savoury dishes as a vegetable.; The red, globose fruit is rather small and fiddly, about 10 - 15mm in diameter, but it is produced in quite large bunches and is well worth the effort of picking.; An edible oil is obtained from the seed.

Habitat & North American Range

Not known in a truly wild situation. (Zone 10)