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_________________ I waited all day
you waited all day
but you left before sunset
and I just wanted to tell you
that the moment was beautiful
just wanted to dance to bad music
drive bad cars
watch bad tv
should have stayed for the sunset
if not for me
The tomato is closely related to the botanical genus Solanum, to which belong many poisonous species. One of the better known of these is belladonna, or deadly nightshade, a plant similar in appearance to the tomato and containing the substance atropine. Unripe tomatoes do contain poisonous alkaloids that disappear (so we are told) as the fruit matures. For a long time tomatoes were not eaten by Europeans but grown as ornamental plants and considered fit only for wild animals; hence the scientific name of Lycopersicon or "wolf peach" given them by the 18th-century English botanist John Hill
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