Irish wildflowers
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
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