Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Solanum lycopersicum
Common name
Tomato
Family
Solanaceae
Where found
Disturbed sites, gardens, rocky areas, and along streams. Coastal. Doubtfully naturalised in the ACT.
Notes
Introduced annual or short-lived perennial herb to 1.5 m high or sprawling. Fruit fleshy. Stems often densely hairy, sticky, green, occasionally purplish. Aromatic. Leaves alternating up the stems, to 30 cm long and 100 mm wide, margins usually deeply lobed to compound, sometimes entire, lower surface densely hairy. Flowers yellow, to 25 mm in diameter, star-shaped, with 5 narrow lobes which are often curved backwards. Flowers usually in 3–7-flowered clusters. Flowers late spring–autumn. Fruit red at maturity, round or almost round, 10–20 mm in diameter. Edible.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Solanum~lycopersicum (accessed 7 February, 2021)
Wikipedia description: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomato (accessed 7 February, 2021)
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