Tomatoes are both vegetables and fruits. In our country, tomatoes belong to the vegetable category. Internationally, tomato (tomato) is considered to be both a fruit and a vegetable

Tomato, also known as tomato (scientific name: Lycopersicon esculentum? Mill.), is an annual or perennial species of the genus Lycopersicon, Solanaceae, and Solanaceae. Herbaceous plant, body height 0.6-2 meters, whole body covered with mucilaginous glandular hairs, strong smell, stem prone to lodging, leaves pinnately compound or deeply pinnately lobed, inflorescence stem 2-5 cm long, often 3-7 flowers , the calyx is radial, the corolla is radial, the berries are oblate or nearly globular, fleshy and juicy, the seeds are yellow, the flowers and fruits are in summer and autumn.

Tomato is native to South America and is widely cultivated in northern and southern China. Tomato fruits are rich in nutrients and have a special flavor. Can be eaten raw, cooked, processed into tomato sauce, juice or whole fruit canned.

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The center of tomato origin is the Andes Mountains of South America. In Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia and other places, wild species are still distributed over large areas. The genus Tomato is divided into colored tomato subspecies and green tomato subspecies. The fruit of the former has various colors when ripe, while the fruit of the latter is green when ripe. The genus Tomato consists of the common cultivated tomato and several species closely related to the cultivated tomato. It is roughly divided into two complex populations: common tomato and Peruvian tomato. The common tomato group includes: common tomato, tenebella tomato, Chisemani tomato, floret tomato, Chimeriuska tomato, and hairy tomato; the Peruvian tomato group includes Chilean tomato and Peruvian tomato.

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