Wild Tomatoes
Before we get into wild tomatoes, just throwing this out there that a tomato is not a vegetable, but rather a fruit. Always wanted to use this bit of knowledge!Anyhow, the tomatoes we have today are drastically different from the ones they used to be before humans domesticated them. Wild tomatoes are more reminiscent of berries rather than fruit as they are extremely small in size. The species of wild tomatoes known as Solanum pimpinellifolium, or more commonly speaking the currant tomato, still exist to this day in Ecuador and Peru and are also naturalized in other places around the globe. They are edible, but not really cultivated to be eaten. Instead they are used for science in developing hybrid species and supplementing the gene pool of the more common tomato species.
