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The tomato (Solanum lycopersicum, formerly Lycopersicon lycopersicum) is a plant in the Solanaceae or nightshade family, native to Central, South, and southern North America from Mexico to Peru. It is a short-lived perennial plant, grown as an annual plant, typically growing to 1-3 m in height, with a weak, woody stem that usually scrambles over other plants. It is a close relative of the potato.

The leaves are 10-25 cm long, pinnate, with 5-9 leaflets, each leaflet up to 8 cm long, with a serrated margin; both the stem and leaves are densely glandular-hairy. The flowers are 1-2 cm across, yellow, with five pointed lobes on the corolla; they are borne in a cyme of 3-12 together. The fruit is an edible, brightly coloured (usually red, from the pigment lycopene) berry, 1-2 cm diameter in wild plants, commonly much larger in cultivated forms.

The word tomato derives from a word in the Nahuatl language, tomatl.

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Wed lunch: at a cafe - baked eggplant with spinach and tomato, topped with fetta and breadcrumbs & served w/ herb toast. Plus a coffee.
LimesLycopene (Limes & Lycopene) Wed, 06 Jan 2010 03:29:24 -0000
Wed lunch: at a cafe - baked eggplant with spinach and tomato, topped with fetta and breadcrumbs & served w/ herb toast. Plus a coffee.
"I'm going to help you stick your filthy dick in this tomato"
Brayan_Gonz09 (Brayan Gonzalez) Wed, 06 Jan 2010 03:27:18 -0000
"I'm going to help you stick your filthy dick in this tomato"
@k_why You found some Tomato Soup at Genesis as well?
ItsBobbyWilson (Bobby Wilson) Wed, 06 Jan 2010 03:26:57 -0000
@k_why You found some Tomato Soup at Genesis as well?
Last convo w/ this client: C: Whats in the tomato/basil sauce M: Tomato, basil, garlic C: aaah, so whats in the Tomato/basil Sauce? .......
hollyhadsell (Holly Hadsell Hajji) Wed, 06 Jan 2010 03:26:06 -0000
Last convo w/ this client: C: Whats in the tomato/basil sauce M: Tomato, basil, garlic C: aaah, so whats in the Tomato/basil Sauce? .......
Just filled out first food service size containers of #mustard. One is en route to Val's Wild Tomato in #Winooski later this week.
VTMustard (Michael Adams) Wed, 06 Jan 2010 03:24:16 -0000
Just filled out first food service size containers of #mustard. One is en route to Val's Wild Tomato in #Winooski later this week.
@white_tomato 「アムロ、アムロ、あつしとはどうだ?」
Kou_chan_Kamiya (神谷光太郎) Wed, 06 Jan 2010 03:23:52 -0000
@white_tomato 「アムロ、アムロ、あつしとはどうだ?」

 
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