Tomato Plant
Lycopersicon esculentum
- Habit
- Herb
- Found in India
- Tamil Nadu, Bihar, Karnataka & more
- Flowering
- Throughout the year
How to identify Tomato Plant
Identify Tomato Plant by combining habit, leaf characters, flower or fruit details, location, and its family pattern. Do not rely on one feature alone.
- Look for a herb habit.
- Confirm flower colour: Yellow.
- Confirm fruit type: Smooth berry.
- In season, compare flowering and fruiting time: Throughout the year.
- In India, compare location records such as Tamil Nadu, Bihar, Karnataka, Uttar Pradesh and nearby regions.
- Confirm it sits within the Solanaceae family pattern, then compare close relatives before deciding it is Tomato Plant.
Plant Details
- Scientific name
- Lycopersicon esculentum
- Genus
- Lycopersicon
- Family
- Solanaceae
- Habit
- Herb
- Native to
- Central & South America
- Distribution
- Cultivated world-over
- Found in India
- Tamil Nadu, Bihar, Karnataka, Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Kerala, West Bengal, Uttarakhand, Rajasthan, Odisha, Assam, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Meghalaya, Telangana, Himachal Pradesh, Tripura, Mizoram, Arunachal Pradesh, Sikkim, Punjab, Chhattisgarh, Haryana, Jammu & Kashmir, Nagaland, Goa, Delhi, Jharkhand, Manipur, Puducherry, Chandigarh
- Flowering & fruiting
- Throughout the year
Leaf characters
- Arrangement
- Alternate
Typical of the Solanaceae family — a field-mark hint, not measured for this exact species.
Flower & fruit characters
- Flower colour
- Yellowrecorded
- Fruit type
- Smooth berryrecorded
Typical of the family
- Flower symmetry
- Actinomorphic (radially symmetrical)
- Inflorescence
- Cyme
- Fruit
- Berry
Characters marked “recorded” are for Tomato Plant itself; the rest are typical of the Solanaceae family — flowering plants only.
Local Names
- Tamil
- தக்காளி பேரினம்
- Telugu
- సొలానమ్
- Malayalam
- സൊളാനം
About Tomato Plant
Tomato Plant (Lycopersicon esculentum) is a herb in the Solanaceae family. In India it has been recorded in Tamil Nadu, Bihar, Karnataka and 29 other states. It flowers and fruits through much of the year.
Uses
In practice it is grown for parts that are eaten, harvested for fodder and used to hold soil and restore degraded ground.
In culture
It is recorded in classical literature.
Solanaceae
Nightshade/Tomato family
Tomato Plant belongs to the Solanaceae family.
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