Tomatoes, potatoes and eggplants
The Potato family at harvest time
Every third year the Botanical Garden host a harvest exhibition. In 2020 the theme of the exhibition is Solanaceae, the potato family. In the family you find delicious vegetables such as tomato, bell pepper, chili and eggplant, as well as deadliy poisonous medical plants. Enjoy your reading about the biology, use and history of the potato family and its members.
The nightshade family
– biology and systematics
American vegetables
– popular in Sweden
Poisonous plants
in the Potato Family
The Potato family at harvest time
This years harvest exhibition is mix of hot chilis, sweet tomatoes, and nourishing aubergine. Welocome to a colourful exhibition about the potato family.
5–13 September 2020
The Exhibition is open every day 11am–4pm, in and around the kitchen garden in the Botanical Garden.