Alicia Silverstone Appears to Eat Poisonous Fruit From a Stranger's Front Yard in a Concerning TikTok
glamour.com, visiting London with her family, apparently walked past what looked like a cherry tomato plant in someone's (gated!) front yard, and to settle a disagreement over what it was, bit into the colorful berry-like fruit.
Unable to reach a consensus, she took to TikTok to see if anyone could identify the plant, as it's manifestly not cherry tomatoes (although, in fairness, it looks a lot like a cherry tomato from the outside).TikTok did what it does best and quickly identified the snack as what looks like…Solanum pseudocapsicum, also known as a Jerusalem cherry.
It's in the nightshade family (as are tomatoes), and it's “mildly poisonous,” according to In the comments on Silverstone's original post, viewers are both impressed and concerned. “Eating random stuff from bushes when you don’t know what it is, is a level of non anxiety I can only aspire to,” wrote one. “Not very mindful… not very demure…” cautioned another.
The “she's clueless” jokes are plentiful. Most agreed that poisonous or not, eating plants you haven't identified and picking plants from private property are both no-nos in general.This content can also be viewed on the site it from.It's unclear how much of the fruit consumed, however, per Medline Plus, symptoms of poisoning are often delayed, showing up 8 to 10 hours after ingestion.
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