THE OTHER TOMATO

JUST AS IT DID WITH KIWIFRUIT, NEW ZEALAND NAMED THE TREE TOMATO TAMARILLO AND MARKETED IT TO THE WORLD

Words Jennifer Stackhouse

Many ripe fruits have a delicious scent — strawberry, mango, pineapple, peach and tomato, to name a few favourites — but tamarillo has a heady perfume when the plant flowers. It’s a real surprise to smell such an exotic perfume wafting through the vegie patch and discover its source is the clusters of pendulous pink-white flowers on the tamarillo. Tamarillo — equally well known as tree tomato — is an ungainly plant: tall, reaching around 3m, with many branches and very large, dark-green, heart-shaped leaves. It’s also brittle, its branches easily broken by the wind (or by a possum, should it decide to climb the tree). One of its real plusses is it produces lots of fruit through late autumn and winter when fresh, home-grown fruit other than citrus can be scarce. It’s also good…

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