Solanacea

Lab dissection (tomato flower)

In progress: Handmade book about Solanaceae and my experiments in Bioengineering.

Notes

• Many of the members of the family are poisonous, and often armed with spines.

• The yellow anthers thrust out of the corolla with the style barely poking out at the center.

• The pistil has an ovary that looks like a small tomato capped with a tall capitate style.

• It has a superior two carpellate ovary with axile placentation (placenta).

• Flower petal lobes tend to overlap or have creases in a petal tube that in bud is folded fan-like.

• Usually leaves are hairy and have a charasteristic odor.

• There are 90 genera and about 3 000 species.

• Tomato flowers consist of joined sepals with 6 lobes, joined petals with 6 lobes, 6 staments, and a single pistil.

Sources

• Botanique, systématique moléculaire, Guignard and Dupont (2005)

• The Science behind Flowers, Dick Rauh (2020).

• Botany Illustrated. Introduction to Plants, Major Groups, Flowering Plant Families, by Janice Glimn-Lacy and Peter B. Kaufman (2006).

• English wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomato

• Susannah Graedel's plate.