Tomatoes as ornamental plants

Tomatoes were also thought to be eaten in hotter countries, like in Mesoamerica, where the tomato originates from.

The Aztecs ate tomatoes and called it the 'tomatl', but it wasn't grown in Britain until the 1590s, and then only for ornamental purposes. The tomato slowly became an acceptable edible fruit, but rumours of the plant's potential poison lingered despite the hundreds of tomato recipes that started to circulate.