Tomato

The tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) is a plant Solanaceae or nightshade family, as are its close cousin’s tobacco, chili peppers, potato, and eggplant. The tomato is subject to Central, South, and southern North America from Mexico to Peru. It is a recurrent, often grown outdoors in temperate climates as a yearly, normally attainment to 1–3 m (3 to 10 ft) in height, with a weak, woody stem that often vines over other plants.

The leaves are 10–25 cm long, pinnate, with 5–9 leaflets, each leaflet equipped 8 cm long, with a jagged margin; both the stem and leaves are thickly glandular-hairy. The flowers are 1–2 cm across, yellow, with five sharp lobes on the corolla; they are borne in a cyme of 3–12 together. The word tomato derives from a look in the Nahuatl language, tomatl. The exact name, lycopersicum, means "wolf-peach" match up to the related species S. lycocarpum, whose scientific name means "wolf-fruit", common name "wolf-apple".