A newly discovered tomato that bleeds?
Christened Solanum ossicruentum (the latter word is a portmanteau of the Latin words for "bone" and "bloody"), the tomato, discovered in Australia, bleeds when cut open. Exposure to the air causes its inside juices to change color from white to red to maroon.
The burrs likely perform a protective function, as well as helping the plant spread its seeds by getting stuck to other creatures.
The tomato was identified in early May by some American scientists, though the indigenous Walmajarri people in Western Australia have been eating parts of a similar "salty bush tomato" for years.
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