What is the difference between tree tomato and tomato? Learn to easily tell the two apart

I. Leaf difference

Tree tomato leaves are alternate, ovate or ovate-cordate, about 5 to 15 cm long and about 5 to 10 cm wide, with the tip gradually tapering to a point, an oblique base, deep sinuses, and entire or slightly wavy margins. The leaf surface is dark green, the underside pale green, and the petiole is 3 to 7 cm long.

Tomato leaves are pinnately compound or pinnately parted, 10 to 40 cm long, with irregular leaflets, usually 5 to 9, ovate or oblong, 5 to 7 cm long, with irregularly serrate or lobed margins.

II. Flower difference

Tree tomato cymes grow nearly axillary or extra-axillary, the pedicel is 1 to 2 cm long, the calyx is rotate, about 6 mm in diameter, and covered with short down. The corolla is rotate, pink, 1.5 to 2 cm in diameter, with 5 deep lobes, and the lobes are lanceolate.

Tomato flowers are yellow, with a rotate corolla about 2 cm in diameter, and the calyx lobes are lanceolate.

III. Fruit difference

Tree tomato fruit is ovate, very juicy, about 5 to 7 cm long, smooth on the surface, and orange-yellow or tinged with red.

Tomato berries are oblate or nearly spherical, fleshy, very juicy, orange-yellow or bright red, and smooth on the surface.