Wild tomato
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Wild tomato can mean wild forms of any of many different Solanaceous plants, including but not limited to:
- Solanum species:
- Solanum lycopersicum, the cultivated tomato
- Solanum carolinense
- Solanum wallacei
- and others
- Physalis species:
- Physalis angulata
- and others
However, taxonomically speaking, currently there are 13 recognized species of wild tomatoes [1]. They were the other members of the genus Lycopersicon (besides Lycopersicon esculentum, the former scientific name of the cultivated tomato), now classified in the genus Solanum, section Lycopersicon.
Their new botanical names in the genus Solanum are:
- S. arcanum
- S. chesmaniae
- S. chilense
- S. chmielewskii
- S. coneliomuelleri
- S. galapagense
- S. habrochaites
- S. huaylasense
- S. lycopersicum
- S. neorickii
- S. pennellii
- S. peruvianum
- S. pimpinellifolium
[edit] References
- ^ Peralta, Knapp and Spooner; 2005; New Species of Wild Tomatoes (Solanum Section Lycopersicon: Solanaceae) from Northern Peru; Systemytic Botany, 30(2): 424-434
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