2008 United Nations Year Of The Spud!

[potatoflinger]

-The Fruit that the serpent tempted Eve with in the Book of Genesis was actually a potato.It became mistakenly referred to as an apple later on when some idiot translated the Bible into French,due to a mix-up with the French name for potato pomme de terre or "apple of the ground."

This is a myth, nowhere in the Bible does it specify what the type of fruit was.

True, it actually says that the fruit came out of a tree.

[daberno123]

True, it actually says that the fruit came out of a tree

which narrows it down infintesimally

[Ragnarok]

Well, you lot have clearly never heard of Solanum Crispum (otherwise known as the Chilean potato tree), or the potato fruit.

Ok, the "Potato tree" isn't really a potato tree, but it is a climbing vine related to the potato. The potato fruit really are the fruit of genuine potato plants (Solanum Tuberosum), but don't eat them, they are toxic.

However, I doubt the bible really referred to such things though.

[Eddbot]

hard to believe this topic would come to the botonology of the potato plant in the bible

[Ragnarok]

I don't know, less likely than the topic being filled with double entendres or innuendos, but if you'd told me that potato fruit would get a mention, I wouldn't have been too surprised.