Tomato


The tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) is a plant in the Solanaceae or nightshade family, as are its secure cousin’s tobacco, chili peppers, potato, and eggplant. The tomato is topic to Central, South, and southern North America from Mexico to Peru. It is a perennial, often grown outdoors in temperate climates as an annual, classically attainment to 1–3 m (3 to 10 ft) in height, with a weak, woody stem that often vines over other plants.

The leaves are 10–25 cm long, pinnate, with 5–9 leaflets, each leaflet up to 8 cm long, with a pointy margin; both the stem and leaves are thickly glandular-hairy. The flowers are 1–2 cm across, yellow, with five sharp lobes on the corolla; they are bear in a cyme of 3–12 together. The word tomato derives from an appearance in the Nahuatl language, tomatl. The exact name, lycopersicum, means "wolf-peach" evaluate the related species S. lycocarpum, whose scientific name means "wolf-fruit", common name "wolf-apple".