Scientific Name: Solanum lycopersicum
Common Name: tomato
Family Name: Solanaceae
Origin: South America
Hardiness Zone: Zone 2: (-46 to -40 °C)
Plant Type: Annual (grown as), Greenhouse produce plant
Mature Size: 2 - 3m x 1.5 - 2.0m (height x width)
Habit: Upright
Form: Climbing
Texture: Coarse
Landscape Uses: Bedding plant, Herb, Urban agriculture
Exposure: Full sun
Soil or Media: Well-drained
Leaves: Compound, Alternate, Soft flexible, Glandular hairs, Distinctive smell, Odd-pinnate, Ovate, Pinnately lobed
Flowers: Cyme, Yellow, Jul-Aug-Sep
Fruit: Berry (true), Edible, Yellow, Blue, Red, Jul-Aug-Sep-Oct
Key ID Features:
Leaves pinnately compound, leaflets fuzzy, irregularly lobed and sized; florets yellow, in raceme-like cymes; berries usually red and 2-10cm wide.