Solanum lycopersicum
The garden tomato, domesticated from wild tomatoes of western South America (its closest wild relative, Solanum pimpinellifolium, is native to Ecuador and Peru). It is a frost-tender, sun-loving plant that sets fruit best with warm days and mild nights. Indoors it needs far more light than most houseplants.
Where it grows wild
Wild ancestors grow on open, sunny, often dry slopes and valleys of coastal and Andean Peru and Ecuador. The cultivated tomato is a plant of open ground in full sun.
Wild relatives run from near sea level to the mid Andes; cultivated tomatoes grow across lowlands to warm highlands.
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