A 500-year-old Mystery Solved (IMAGE)

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

A 500-year-old Mystery Solved

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Giant beeksteak tomatoes were first brought to Europe by the conquistador Cortez in the early 1500s. Here, a hand-colored woodblock illustration from the 1590 German language edition of Mattioli's Commentaries on Dioscorides edited by Joachim Camerarius of Frankfurt (Mattioli 1590).

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