Lycopersicon esculentum Mill.

Spice Fruit

Family: SOLANACEAE

Genus: Lycopersicon

Sinònims: Solanum lycopersicum L.

Catalan common name: Tomatiguera.

Spanish common name: Tomatera.

Province distribution: Alacant. Balearic Islands. Barcelona. Castelló. Girona. Lleida. Tarragona. València.

Distribution in the islands: Mallorca. Menorca. Ibiza. Formentera.

General distribution (Phytogeography): Neotropical

Uses and properties: Edible or foodstuffs.

Flowering time: JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Life-forms: Terophyte.

Habitats: Cultivated fields, path and road sides, disturbed zones. Cultivated species. Non-saline wetlands (intermittent watercourses, streams, artesian wells, ditches). Cultivated specie, naturalizated in the torrents.

Characteristics: The tomato is a climbing plant with composite leaves that alter between large and small folioles, these folioles are dentate, and this differentiates them from the leaves of the potato, which are entire. Flowers are yellow in colour and the fruit is in the form of a red berry.