Lycopersicon lycopersicum 'H8893'

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Common Names

Description

Family Solanaceae

Herbs, shrubs , small trees , or climbers . Stems sometimes prickly, rarely thorny; hairs simple , branched, or stellate , sometimes glandular . Leaves alternate, solitary or paired , simple or pinnately compound , without stipules; leaf blade entire , dentate , lobed , or divided . Inflorescences terminal , overtopped by continuing axes, appearing axillary , extra-axillary , or leaf opposed, often apparently umbellate , racemose, paniculate , clustered, or solitary flowers, rarely true cymes, sometimes bracteate . Flowers mostly bisexual , usually regular, 5-merous, rarely 4- or 6-9-merous. Calyx mostly lobed. Petals united . Stamens as many as corolla lobes and alternate with them, inserted within corolla, all alike or 1 or more reduced; anthers dehiscing longitudinally or by apical pores . Ovary 2-5-locular; placentation mostly axile ; ovules usually numerous . Style 1. Fruiting calyx often becoming enlarged, mostly persistent . Fruit a berry or capsule. Seeds with copious endosperm; embryo mostly curved .

About 95 genera with 2300 species: best represented in western tropical America, widespread in temperate and tropical regions ; 20 genera (ten introduced ) and 101 species in China.

Some species of Solanaceae are known in China only by plants cultivated in ornamental or specialty gardens: Atropa belladonna Linnaeus, Cyphomandra betacea (Cavanilles) Sendtner, Brugmansia suaveolens (Willdenow) Berchtold & Presl, Nicotiana alata Link & Otto, and Solanum jasminoides Paxton.Zhi-Yun Zhang, Anmin Lu & William G. D'Arcy "Solanaceae". in Flora of China Vol. 17 Page 300. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org.

Genus Lycopersicon

Herbs annual or perennial , unarmed ; pubescence of simple or glandular hairs . Leaves petiolate , mostly compound with interstitial leaflets . Inflorescences appearing axillary or lateral , racemose; peduncle sometimes forked . Flowers pedicellate , 5-9-merous. Calyx campanulate , slightly enlarged or not. Corolla yellow, rotate, deeply lobed . Stamens inserted in corolla tube ; filaments short; anthers slender, coherent, attenuate and long apiculate at apex, dehiscing longitudinally. Ovary 2-5-loculed. Style filiform ; stigma minute, capitate. Fruiting calyx hardly enlarged. Berry red, orange, yellow, or green, mostly globose , rarely grooved , sometimes pubescent . Seeds numerous , discoid , sometimes pubescent; embryo strongly curved .

Nine species: South and North America, one species widely cultivated in China."Lycopersicon". in Flora of China Vol. 17 Page 329. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org.

Taxonomy

Similar Species

Members of the genus Lycopersicon

There are approximately 3328 species in this genus. Here are just 100 of them:

L. aesculenon · L. agrimoniifolium · L. bipinnatifidum · L. cerasiforme var. cognitum · L. cerasiforme var. rotundilobum · L. cheesmaniae · L. cheesmanii (Cheesman's Tomato) · L. cheesmanii f. minus · L. cheesmanii minus · L. cheesmanii subsp. minus · L. cheesmanii subsp. typicum · L. cheesmanii typicum · L. cheesmanii var. minor · L. cheesmannii · L. chilense (Chile Tomato) · L. chmielewskii · L. commutatum · L. dentatum · L. esculentum 'Alicante' · L. esculentum 'Arasta' F1 hybrid · L. esculentum 'Blizzard' F1 hybrid · L. esculentum 'Chiswick Dessert' · L. esculentum 'Chiswick Peach' · L. esculentum 'Chiswick Red' · L. esculentum 'Cossack' F1 hybrid · L. esculentum 'Counter' · L. esculentum 'Cristal' F1 hybrid · L. esculentum 'Flavr Savr' · L. esculentum 'Gardener's Delight' · L. esculentum 'Gold Nugget' · L. esculentum 'Golden Sunburst' · L. esculentum 'Golden Sunrise' · L. esculentum 'Harbinger' · L. esculentum 'Jenny' · L. esculentum 'Lemon Girl' · L. esculentum 'Nectar' · L. esculentum 'Outdoor Girl' · L. esculentum 'Pannovy' F1 hybrid · L. esculentum 'Phyra' · L. esculentum 'Piranto' F1 hybrid · L. esculentum 'Red Peach' · L. esculentum 'Ruby' · L. esculentum 'Shirley' F1 hybrid · L. esculentum 'Sonato' F1 hybrid · L. esculentum 'Spectra' F1 hybrid · L. esculentum 'Sun Baby' · L. esculentum 'Sunset' · L. esculentum 'Supersweet 100' · L. esculentum 'Sweet 100' · L. esculentum 'Sweet Million' · L. esculentum 'Tangella' · L. esculentum 'Tigerella' · L. esculentum 'Tornado' · L. esculentum 'Vanessa' F1 hybrid · L. esculentum 'Western Gold' F1 hybrid · L. esculentum 'Yellow Debut' · L. esculentum 'Yellow Perfection' · L. esculentum 'Yellow Stuffer' · L. esculentum f. pyriforme · L. esculentum galeni · L. esculentum intermedium · L. esculentum Mill. 'Bazalt' · L. esculentum Mill. 'Big White Pink Striped' · L. esculentum Mill. 'Black Plum' · L. esculentum Mill. 'Elberta Girl' · L. esculentum Mill. 'Evergreen' · L. esculentum Mill. 'Gigante' · L. esculentum Mill. 'Granit' · L. esculentum Mill. 'Green Grape' · L. esculentum Mill. 'Grit' · L. esculentum Mill. 'Gundula' · L. esculentum Mill. 'Hild's Martina' · L. esculentum Mill. 'Humboldtii' · L. esculentum Mill. 'Karmin violett' · L. esculentum Mill. 'Luteocarpum' · L. esculentum Mill. 'Nadja' · L. esculentum Mill. 'Nigrum' · L. esculentum Mill. 'Orange' · L. esculentum Mill. 'Peche' · L. esculentum Mill. 'Piriforme' · L. esculentum Mill. 'Red Jacket' · L. esculentum Mill. 'San Marsano' · L. esculentum Mill. 'Stupicke Polni' · L. esculentum Mill. 'Varsowia' · L. esculentum Mill. 'White Beauty' · L. esculentum Mill. 'White Wander' · L. esculentum Mill. 'Zhuan Hong Kiao' · L. esculentum Mill. convar. esculentum var. esculentum 'Marmande' · L. esculentum Mill. convar. esculentum var. violaceum 'Carmin Violett · L. esculentum Mill. convar. fruticosum C.O.Lehm. var. finiens C.O.Leh · L. esculentum Mill. convar. grandifolium 'Mikado' · L. esculentum Mill. convar. infiniens C.O.Lehm. var. cordiforme 'Coeu · L. esculentum Mill. convar. scopigerum C.O.Lehm. var. scopigerum 'Pri · L. esculentum Mill. var. cerasiforme (Dunal) A.Gray · L. esculentum Mill. var. cerasiforme (Dunal) A.Gray 'Cerise' · L. esculentum Mill. var. cerasiforme (Dunal) A.Gray 'Delice du Jardin · L. esculentum Mill. var. cerasiforme (Dunal) A.Gray 'Garden's Delight' · L. esculentum Mill. var. cerasiforme (Dunal) A.Gray 'Golden Perfection' · L. esculentum Mill. var. cerasiforme (Dunal) A.Gray 'Justen's Zuckertomate' · L. esculentum Mill. var. cerasiforme (Dunal) A.Gray 'Kirschtomate rot'