/tomato flowers wiki.jpg) Image by David Besa from Wikimedia Commons |
/tomato flower magnified wiki.jpg) Flowers showing extended apical appendage on anthers. Detail from image by David Besa from Wikimedia Commons |
/FSA 567 Lycopersicon.jpg) By G. Dashorst, Fl.S. Australia 3, f. 567 partly (1986). |
Derivation of epithet
From esculentum, Latin for edible.