Keyed Out #024 — Solanum lycopersicum 'Yellow Pear'

Question 1

A flat, five-pointed star flower carries a protruding cone of {anthers} that shed pollen only through tiny {poricidal} pores at the tip, shaken free by a bee's buzz, while the ripening ovary swells into a pulpy {berry}.

Accepted Answer

nightshade family

Question 2

Snap a stem or leaf and the sap runs thin, clear and watery, never bleeding out as a milky or coloured latex.

Accepted Answer

Solanaceae

Question 3

Its flowers open several together in a small forking spray, not one at a time each sitting alone at a leaf-base.

Accepted Answer

Solanum

Question 4

Its ripening {berry} sits cupped in a small, open calyx of green sepals, never swelling inside an inflated papery lantern.

Accepted Answer

Solanum

Question 5

It carries its juicy {berry} fruit openly on the stems above ground and forms no starchy swollen tubers on underground {stolons}.

Accepted Answer

Solanum lycopersicum

Question 6

Its stems and leaf-stalks are soft-hairy yet completely unarmed, carrying {pinnate}, jaggedly cut, pungent leaves without a single {prickle}.

Accepted Answer

Solanum lycopersicum

Question 7

Its clustered {berry} fruits are fleshy and many-seeded, often swelling past 1 inch (2.5 cm) across, unlike the pea-round fruit under half an inch (1 cm) borne by some near kin.

Accepted Answer

Solanum lycopersicum