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Lycopersicon esculentum Miller
tomato
Solanaceae (Potato family)

Introduction to Vascular Plants

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Introduction

The tomato often arises in cultivated soil, topsoil piles, soil dumps, roadside dumps and landfills, but but only occasionally produces ripe fruit and rarely persists to the next season.

Author: Frank Lomer, Honourary Research Associate, University of British Columbia Herbarium

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