Solanum lycopersicumL.

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WFO wfo-0001029216 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Solanum lycopersicum, photographed by Jon Sullivan
fig. a Jon Sullivan, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-04-30 / obs. 195570064
Solanum lycopersicum, photographed by Maria Janeiro
fig. b Maria Janeiro, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 193651635
Solanum lycopersicum, photographed by Tim Kirsten
fig. c Tim Kirsten, CC0 1.0 / obs. 192456726
Solanum lycopersicum, photographed by Grete Pasch
fig. d Grete Pasch, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 182631023
Solanum lycopersicum, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. e Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 187917065
Solanum lycopersicum, photographed by Attila Oláh
fig. f Attila Oláh, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 188991197
Solanum lycopersicum, photographed by Oscar Alejandro Morales Juárez
fig. g Oscar Alejandro Morales Juárez, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 195414136
Solanum lycopersicum, photographed by 葉子
fig. h 葉子, CC0 1.0 / obs. 190048361

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Flowering n = 1,215 observations

Peak flowering in Sep, from 1,215 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 160 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Amatula flava Medik.
  • Amatula rubra Medik.
  • Lycopersicon amplipinnatum C.O.Lehm.
  • Lycopersicon cerasiforme Dunal
  • Lycopersicon cerasiforme var. cerasiforme
  • Lycopersicon cerasiforme var. cognitum Mazk.
  • Lycopersicon cerasiforme var. leptophyllum Dunal
  • Lycopersicon cerasiforme var. rotundilobum Mazk.
  • Lycopersicon cordiforme C.O.Lehm.
  • Lycopersicon densifolium C.O.Lehm.
  • Lycopersicon esculentum Mill.
  • Lycopersicon esculentum f. esculentum
  • Lycopersicon esculentum f. esculentum
  • Lycopersicon esculentum f. pyriforme (Dunal) C.H.Mull.
  • Lycopersicon esculentum subsp. esculentum
  • Lycopersicon esculentum subsp. galenii (Mill.) Luckwill
  • Lycopersicon esculentum subsp. humboldtii (Willd.) Luckwill
  • Lycopersicon esculentum subsp. typicum Luckwill
  • Lycopersicon esculentum subvar. detgrandifolioaurantium Khrapolova
  • Lycopersicon esculentum subvar. detgrandifolioroseum Khrapolova
  • Lycopersicon esculentum subvar. detgrandifoliorubrum Khrapolova
  • Lycopersicon esculentum subvar. detvalidoaurantium Khrapolova
  • Lycopersicon esculentum subvar. detvalidocitreum Khrapolova
  • Lycopersicon esculentum subvar. detvalidoluteum Khrapolova

and 136 more.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.