Solanacea
Lab dissection (tomato flower)
Whole flower
Flower enlarged and open
Flower bud
Ovary
Style and stigma
Flower bud
Evolution: flower
Evolution: green tomato
Evolution: yellow and red tomato
In progress: Handmade book about Solanaceae and my experiments in Bioengineering.
Notes
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Solanales
Family: Solanaceae
Genus: Solanum
Species: S. lycopersicum
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.