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Those round seed pods are also called potato fruit, potato berries and seed balls. They look like green cherry tomatoes and usually appear in small clusters. The interior of a seed pod has up to 500 tiny seeds distributed throughout a mass of moist tissue.
Similarly, it is asked, what are the tomato like fruits on potato plants?
After flowering, potato plants produce small green fruits that resemble green cherry tomatoes, each containing about 300 seeds. Like all other parts of the plant except the tubers, the fruit contain the toxic alkaloid solanine and are therefore unsuitable for consumption.
Similarly one may ask, is the fruit of a potato plant edible?
Potato flowers and fruit are produced because this is how the plants multiply themselves, by seed. These potato fruit are not edible. More precisely, they are poisonous. They contain high amounts of solanine that can make the eater very ill.
Occasionally gardeners are surprised to find small, round, green, tomato-like fruit on their potato plants. These fruit are not the result of cross-pollination with tomatoes. Potato fruit, as well as the plant itself, contain relatively large amounts of solanine. Solanine is a poisonous alkaloid.