| 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, Pubescent, Glandular hairs, Distinctive smell, Odd-pinnate, Ovate, Pinnately lobed, Serrate |
| Flowers: | Cyme, Yellow, Jul-Aug-Sep |
| Fruit: | Berry (true), Edible, Yellow, Blue, Red, Jul-Aug-Sep-Oct |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Leaves alternate, 10-30cm long x 8-18cm wide, pinnately compound, leaflets 5-9, variable sizes, most 2-10cm long x 1-6cm wide and irregularly lobed, pubescent-fuzzy, tomato smell when crushed; flowers yellow, ~1cm wide, in raceme-like cymes; berries commonly red, 2-10cm wide. | |