Tomato - Solanum lycopersicum
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Tomato - Solanum lycopersicum | dylan | Westbury Wildlife Park | 12 Aug 2022, 9:47 p.m. | 1 Aug 2022, 5:13 p.m. | |
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Tomato - Solanum lycopersicum | dylan | Blaise Castle | 7 Oct 2022, 3:04 p.m. | 6 Oct 2022, 5:46 p.m. |
Species Description
Stace 4:
Solanum lycopersicum L. (Lycopersicon esculentum Mill., L. lycopersicum (L.) Karsten) - Tomato.
Stems erect to decumbent or scrambling, to 2m; leaves pinnate, 20-40cm, with toothed to lobed leaflets; corolla yellow, 18-25mm across; fruit usually red, rarely yellow to orange, 2-10cm across; (2n=24). Neophyte-casual; much used as salad-fruit and vegetable and common on tips and in sewage works and waste places, grown on field scale in South England and Channel Islands; frequent throughout British Isles; Central & South America.
Key:
- Corolla yellow
- Spines 0; fruit conspicuously exposed from calyx