Tomato
ಟೊಮೆಟೊटमाटरதக்காளி
Solanum lycopersicum L.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 2.0 m
- wide
- 75 cm
Solanaceae
Also called Tomato plant, Garden tomato
Formerly Amatula flava, Amatula rubra, Lycopersicon esculentum, Lycopersicon galenii, and 14 more
When it flowers
Flowers January to February and June to November in the tropics.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Scrambling subshrubKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Wet tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- As a cultigen from PeruKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from RHS and NC State Extension, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Height
- 1.5 m to 2.5 mRead from RHS and NC State Extension, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: RHS 1.5–2.5 m; NC State Extension 1–10 ft
- Spread
- 51 cm to 99 cmRead from RHS and NC State Extension, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: RHS 0.5–1 m; NC State Extension 1–4 ft
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from RHS and NC State Extension, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Flowers
- YellowRead from RHS and NC State Extension, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Coldest it survives
- 5 °C (USDA zone 11a)Read from RHS, one source
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
Grow it with
Suggested by a rule, not by a gardener: same climate (kew), flowering when this plant does not (inaturalist), and a different shape.
Australian Umbrella TreeFlowers March to May and December, when this does not
Banana passionfruitFlowers March to May and December, when this does not
Bengal clock vineFlowers March to May and December, when this does not
Bleeding heart vineFlowers March to May and December, when this does not
Blue Trumpet VineFlowers March to May and December, when this does not
BougainvilleaFlowers March to May and December, when this does not
In other languages (12)
- Spanish
- Tomate, Jitomate
- Indonesian
- Tomat
- Portuguese
- Tomate, Tomateiro
- Chinese
- 番茄, 西红柿
- French
- Tomate
- root
- xīctomatl, SOLLYC, Pamdòr
- German
- Tomate, Paradeiser
- Hawaiian
- 'Ōhi'a
- Czech
- lilek rajče
- Japanese
- トマト, アカナス, 唐柿
- Russian
- Томат, томат, помидор
- Arabic
- طماطم
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-24, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- RHS, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- 3D model: Solanum lycopersicum (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.