Crops

Tomato

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General Reference

Agriculture and Farming Atlas. "Tomato." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://agriculture.interactiveatlas.org/crops/tomato.

APA Style

Agriculture and Farming Atlas. (n.d.). Tomato. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://agriculture.interactiveatlas.org/crops/tomato

BibTeX

@misc{agricultureandfarmingatlas-tomato,
  author = {Agriculture and Farming Atlas},
  title = {Tomato},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://agriculture.interactiveatlas.org/crops/tomato},
  note = {Accessed August 30, 2026}
}

The world's leading vegetable crop by value, domesticated in the Americas from a wild cherry-sized fruit and carried to Europe in the Columbian Exchange, where it was long grown as an ornamental curiosity before conquering the world's kitchens. Botanically a fruit, farmed and traded as a vegetable, and the flagship crop of greenhouse horticulture.

Facts

Scientific Name

Solanum lycopersicum 1

Crop Class

Vegetable 1

Domestication Region

Western South America and Mesoamerica (Mexico the likely center of full domestication) 1

Domesticated When (Circa)

by circa 500 BC in Mesoamerica 1

Sources

1. Tomato (Wikipedia)

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