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Family: Solanaceae
Garden Tomato, more...Garden Tomato, tomato (es: tomate)
[Lycopersicon cerasiforme Dunal, moreLycopersicon esculentum P. Mill., Lycopersicon esculentum subsp. galenii (Mill.) Luckwill, Lycopersicon esculentum var. cerasiforme (Dunal) Alef., Lycopersicon esculentum var. esculentum Mill., Lycopersicon esculentum var. leptophyllum (Dunal) D'Arcy, Lycopersicon esculentum var. pyriforme (Dunal) L.H. Bailey, Lycopersicon lycopersicum (L.) Karst. ex Farw., Lycopersicon lycopersicum var. cerasiforme (Dunal) Alef., Lycopersicon lycopersicum var. pyriforme (Dunal) Alef., Lycopersicon pyriforme Dunal, Solanum lycopersicon L., Solanum lycopersicum var. cerasiforme (Dunal) Spooner, G.J. Anderson & R.K. Jansen, Solanum lycopersicum var. lycopersicum] |
PLANT: Annual to perennial herbs without tubers or stolons; stems 1-3 m long, decumbent with age, fleshy, unarmed, pubescent with unicellular and uniseriate multicellular hairs, sticky-glandular, aromatic. LEAVES: alternate, irregularly pinnately compound to pinnatifid, (10-)20-40 cm long, (3-)7-10 cm wide, with hairs like those on stem; primary lateral leaflets 3-4(-5) pairs, 2-5 cm long, 0.8-2.5 cm wide, ovate to elliptic; base oblique, truncate to cordate; apex acute-attenuate; margin dentate-crenate to shallowly lobed, more so near base; terminal leaflet usually larger than laterals, 3-6 cm long, 1.5-3 cm wide; small interstitial leaflets common; petiole 1.2-6 cm long. INFLORESCENCE: few-flowered racemes, to 10 cm long, ebractate, rarely branched; peduncle 1.5-5 cm. FLOWERS: actinomorphic, more than 5-merous in some cultivars; pedicels 1-1.2 cm long; calyx 0.5-1.2 cm long, with tube minute, the lobes linear; corolla 0.7-2.5 cm long, 1-2 cm in diam., pentagonal, yellow; lobes 2-4 times as long as tube, narrowly lanceolate, reflexed, sparsely pubescent on tips and margins; anthers connivent in a staminal column 0.6-0.8 cm long, this narrowly cone-shaped, tapered and sterile at tip; filaments minute to 0.5 mm long; style 0.6-1 cm long, usually not exceeding in staminal column. FRUITS 1.5-2.5(-12) cm wide, yellow- green, orange to red; seeds 2.5-3.3 mm long, obovate, pale brown, narrowly winged at apex. NOTES: Waste areas, abandoned fields, roadsides, riverbeds; typically collected near populated areas, no persistent populations occur in Arizona: Coconino, Maricopa, Yavapai cos. (Fig. 2D); 300-2100 m (1000-7000 ft); Apr-Sep; native to S. Amer., cultivated worldwide. This species displays enormous variation in fruit shape and size. A small- fruited variety, called “S. l. var. cerasiforme” by some authors, have been suggested to be ancestral to the cultivated form, though recent work has shown this variety to be a mixture of wild and cultivated forms (Nesbitt & Tanksley 2002). REFERENCES: Chiang, F. and L.R. Landrum. Vascular Plants of Arizona: Solanaceae Part Three: Lycium. CANOTIA 5 (1): 17-26, 2009. Sprawling and freely branched, clammy-pubescent annual (potentially perennial but tender); lvs pinnately or bipinnately compound, to 3 dm, the lfls variable, the larger ovate or lanceolate, toothed or shallowly lobed; fls yellow, 1 cm wide; fr very juicy, several cm thick, in most cultivars scarlet; 2n=24, 48. Native to the Andes, widely cult.; seedlings frequently appear about gardens, roadsides, and waste places, but do not persist. July-Sept. Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp. ©The New York Botanical Garden. All rights reserved. Used by permission. |
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