Irish wildflowers BSBI map

Tomato, Solanum lycopersicum, Tráta
Photographs: Macroom, Co. Cork

Tomato
Solanum lycopersicum (Lycopersicon esculentum)
Tráta
Family: Solanaceae

Annual. Introduced.

Yellow flowers with a star-shaped, deeply lobed calyx. The fruit is round and succulent, green ripening to red, but the fruit of self-sown plants rarely ripens. Pinnate leaves with lobed or toothed leaflets. A frost tender plant, the stems erect or scrambling to 2m.

A casual garden escape, often found near urban areas or ports on waste ground, roadsides, river gravel and beaches and at sewage works

Tomato, Solanum lycopersicum, Tráta

Tomato, Solanum lycopersicum, Tráta
Tomato, Solanum lycopersicum, Tráta

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