This is an illustration of a tomato flower. It is a yellow flower that has the typical shape of the Solanaceae family.
Botanical information
Informations of the plants imaged for these illustrations is bellow.
Botanical name
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Solanum lycoperisicum
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tomato
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Lycoperisicon esculentum Mill.
Plantae Category
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Solanaceae
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Solanum
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Solanum lycopersicum
Origin
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[commonly tomato] Western South America, Mexico, Central America
([Solanum pimpinellifolium; the wild ancestor] Western South America, the Andean plateau)
