My Purple Majesty potato plant has dropped a very strange berry. I have never seen anything like it, and I've been gardening all my life.
This is no ordinary potato berry; my plants have birthed lots of those over the years! It is deep purple, ovoid, shiny, with little goose-pimples all over it. On the sides it has scales, so that it looks rather like a fat beetle with wing-cases. Each 'wing case' culminates in a little tuft of potato leaves and there is also a tuft at the top. (It was attached at the bottom.)
Question is, what is it, why has it formed, what should I do with it? I'm calling it a berry because it was attached to the dying potato tops (PM is early maincrop, hence nearly ready to dig now)
Thanks! I'm mystified...
This is no ordinary potato berry; my plants have birthed lots of those over the years! It is deep purple, ovoid, shiny, with little goose-pimples all over it. On the sides it has scales, so that it looks rather like a fat beetle with wing-cases. Each 'wing case' culminates in a little tuft of potato leaves and there is also a tuft at the top. (It was attached at the bottom.)
Question is, what is it, why has it formed, what should I do with it? I'm calling it a berry because it was attached to the dying potato tops (PM is early maincrop, hence nearly ready to dig now)
Thanks! I'm mystified...
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