Tomato/pepper mix?

Colorado_west · March 21, 2007

Can a tomato and pepper cross? On another fourm a lady says this guy had it happen. IMHO it can not happen as two different familes of plants. Aren't they? She said the tomato was bell pepper shaped and tomato like inside not hollow. I know what stuffing tomatoes are and I grow them. A stuffing tomato could cross with a tomato and have same shape and different inside? In fact I do not know where stuffing tomatoes come from?

**carolyn137** · March 21, 2007

No, peppers of any kind and tomatoes, can not cross pollinate.

She's talking about a flap that happened a few years back when it was represented that such a cross had occured and it had not. There are several tomato varieties that resemble bell peppers in shape.

Colorado_west · March 21, 2007

Thankyou Carolyn. Some way I sure missed that flap.

March 21, 2007	#1
Colorado_west Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: western Colorado zone 5 Posts: 307	Tomato/pepper mix? Can a tomato and pepper cross? On another fourm a lady says this guy had it happen. IMHO it can not happen as two different familes of plants. Aren't they? She said the tomato was bell pepper shaped and tomato like inside not hollow. I know what stuffing tomatoes are and I grow them. A stuffing tomato could cross with a tomato and have same shape and different inside? In fact I do not know where stuffing tomatoes come from?

March 21, 2007	#2
carolyn137 Moderator Emeritus Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Upstate NY, zone 4b/5a Posts: 21,169	No, peppers of any kind and tomatoes, can not cross pollinate. She's talking about a flap that happened a few years back when it was represented that such a cross had occured and it had not. There are several tomato varieties that resemble bell peppers in shape. __________________ Carolyn