Talk:Tamarillo

message: I find it quite jarring & distracting to use fruits as the plural of fruit in the sense piece of fruit, when this article is clearly discussing only one fruit.
Is there any policy reason not to replace "fruits" with "fruit" or "pieces" as is appropriate in each context?
Martin Kealey 103.207.76.77 (talk) 09:54, 25 July 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: Fruit vs Fruits

message: What does it taste like?
A little piece of heaven. Tart and sweet, with a great pulpy texture. If I had to compare it to a fruit, I'd say a less sweet kiwi. Cskotte 13:51, 24 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

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message: I've seen it [http://the-plant-directory.co.uk/cyphomandra-betacea-tamarillo-or-tree-tomato-p-2536.html described as a climber, though usually it's described as a small tree. Is that link wrong? --Chriswaterguy talk 23:23, 23 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  tree or climber 

message: I was surprised that this article differs from just about all other WP ones on fruit in that it does not explicitly tell you to which other fruits this one is related. Does it just look like a tomato is it a cousin? And although it says quite a bit about its cultivation in Australia and New Zealand, it does not tell us where it originates. Details on taxonomy and etymology are scant. It looks as if the authors are mostly interested in the commercial cultivation of the fruit, and then mainly in the Antipodes. That's all well and good, but the scientific stuff is just as interesting. How about it? Myles325a (talk) 07:23, 8 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is it a kind of Tomato, and where does it come from? 

message: It is clear, from the article listing Solanum species that, based on phylogenetic analysis of molecular data, this plant should be referred to as Solanum betaceum. However, it is also clear that the most commonly used name for this plant is Cyphomandra betacea. I am extremely surprised that this is not listed as a synonym in this article. Surely this is an oversight?
The following table shows the number of hits when I tried to google for "Cyphomandra betacea", its current official name, the currently listed synonyms on the Wikipedia page for this plant, and an additional synonym that I just made up (but which could easily be entered by mistake).
Search text (in quotes but search also includes quotes around query)	Number of hits
"Cyphomandra betacea" (not currently shown as a synonym)            	104000
"Solanum betaceum" (the current official name)                      	55,200
"Cyphomandra crassifolia"                                           	697
"Pionandra betacea"                                                 	572
"Solanum betacea"                                                   	2,470
"Solanum crassifolium"                                              	794
"Solanum insigne"                                                   	794
"Cyphomandra betaceum" (not listed as a synonym --just for fun)     	54
As can be readily seen, Cyphomandra betacea is the most commonly used name, the current official name, Solanum betaceum, is a distant second, and all the other synonyms are barely used within the pages which have been crawled by the Google spider.
I propose that Cyphomandra betacea needs to be added as a synonym.
Cosmicaug (talk) 04:21, 6 May 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Synonyms for ''Solanum betaceum'' 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: There's this point in the article that's there.--Knockxx (talk) 09:46, 10 August 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  On somewhere, 

message: The article states that the tamarillo is a "A crossing of flowering plant family Solanaceae with the Tamarind (Tamarindus indica)[2]"
As an amateur plant scientist, I find it incredibly unlikely that a tomato plant from south america naturally crossed with a bean plant from asia. Furthermore, the plant shares absolutely no characteristics with a tamarind tree, and there is no information anywhere on the internet supporting this genetic cross theory. The cited source [2] is a book about eating fruit, I would not consider that a high-quality source on genetic information. I suggest we find a better source or remove this statement.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.52.230.131 (talk) 17:27, 21 June 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dubious genetics 

message: There appears to be no definitive classification of fruit varieties other than by fruit colour. From Morton (1987):
There are apparently no named cultivars... The dark-red strain (called "black") now leading in commercial plantings in New Zealand was obtained by selection around 1920 as a variation from the yellow and purple types grown up to that time. It was propagated and reselection thereafter resulted in this large, higher quality, red variety.
According to tamarillo.com the main varieties are red, amber, and gold. The general consensus is that the orange/amber is the sweetest.--Lmstearn (talk) 06:31, 1 August 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Varieties/Cultivars 

message: When I lived in Rwanda  in the 1980s, Where it is a well known fruit, the French speakers called it “prune de Japon”. Ptilinopus (talk) 10:32, 10 December 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  French name