It is best known as the species that bears the tamarillo, an egg-shaped edible fruit. The stud bred the eventing champion Tamarillo. The tamarillo trees are adaptable and very easy to grow. In the eventing world, one of his best known partnerships is with the horse Tamarillo. It is also known as dwarf tamarillo, due to superficial similarities with "Solanum betaceum". Tamarillo plants grow best in light, deep, fertile soils, although they are not very demanding. The tamarillo is native to the Andes of Ecuador, Colombia, Peru, Chile, Argentina and Bolivia. Similar to Nepal, the Indian regions of Ooty, Darjeeling and Sikkim also consume Tamarillo.