Daily Postcard: A hummingbird samples the flower of a tomatillo plant Friday in White Rock. The tomatillo, also known as the Mexican husk tomato, is a plant of the nightshade family bearing small, spherical and green or green-purple fruit of the same name. Tomatillos originated in Mexico and were cultivated in the pre-Columbian era. Source: wikipedia.com. Photo by Nancy Ann Hibbs