Lycopersicon esculentum, Miller

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1972, Flora Europaea. Volume 3. Diapensiacea to Myoporaceae, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press : 199

1. L. esculentum Miller , Gard. Diet. ed. 8, no. 2 (1768).

Plant villous. Leaves at least 20 cm; leaflets ovate to ovatelanceolate, irregularly incised-serrate to pinnatisect, somewhat glaucous beneath. Cymes 3- to 20-flowered; peduncles simple or dichotomously branched; pedicels articulated near the middle, deflexed in fruit. Corolla up to 2-5 cm in diameter, yellow. Berry 2-10 cm in diameter, globose, ovoid or pyriform, often depressed or irregularly lobed and ridged, densely glandularvillous when young, glabrescent, red to pink or yellowish. 2« = 24. Cultivated for the edible fruits (tomatoes) on a field scale throughout S. and parts of C. & E. Europe; a frequent casual, but nowhere truly naturalized. (South and Central America; Mexico.)

Variants with globose berries l- 5-2(-3)cm in diameter are sometimes cultivated, and have been called subsp. galeni (Miller) Luckwill , Gen. Lycopers. 23 (1943), or var. cerasiforme (Dunal) Alef.