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Tomato
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Copyright: H Ralf Lundgren (bucanas) Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 1780 W: 32 N: 1055] (15216)
Genre: Places
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2008-11-14
Categories: Nature, Portrait
Camera: Nikon D200, AF MICRO NIKKOR 60MM 1:2.8 D
Exposure: f/20.0, 1 seconds
More Photo Info: [view]
Photo Version: Original Version
Date Submitted: 2008-11-22 0:57
Viewed: 191
Points: 18
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note
The tomato (Solanum lycopersicum, syn. Lycopersicon lycopersicum) is a herbaceous, usually sprawling plant in the Solanaceae or nightshade family, as are its close cousins tobacco, chili peppers, and eggplant. It is a perennial, often grown outdoors in temperate climates as an annual, typically reaching to 1-3m (3 to 10 ft) in height, with a weak, woody stem that often vines over other plants.
The leaves are 10–25 centimetres (3.9–9.8 in) long, odd pinnate, with 5–9 leaflets on petioles,[1] each leaflet up to 8 centimetres (3.1 in) long, with a serrated margin; both the stem and leaves are densely glandular-hairy. The flowers are 1–2 centimetres (0.39–0.79 in) across, yellow, with five pointed lobes on the corolla; they are borne in a cyme of 3–12 together.
The tomato is native to Central, South, and southern North America from Mexico to Argentina. There is evidence that the first domesticated tomato was a little yellow fruit, ancestor of L. cerasiforme, grown by the Aztecs in Mexico, who called it xitomatl (pronounced shi-to-ma-tlh), meaning "plump thing with a navel". The word tomato comes from a word in the Nahuatl language, tomatl. The specific name, lycopersicum, means "wolf-peach" (compare the related species Solanum lycocarpum, whose scientific name means "wolf-fruit", common name "wolf-apple"), as they are a major food of wild canids in South America.
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  • ayse51 Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 1679 W: 124 N: 1437] (20206)
  • [2008-11-22 1:04]

Hi H Ralf,
great macro and great details.Perfect presentation.Congratulations.Necla.

Good Morning Ralf,

This is a fine study of the fruit, capturing essentaial textures and colours.
I do like your management of the light.

Kind regards,
Bev :-)

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  • Janice Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 3265 W: 267 N: 7730] (32966)
  • [2008-11-22 1:30]

Hi Ralf, it doesn't look like a very tasty tomato :) I think the yellow shows us that it's going to have quite a tough skin too.
We have our tomatoes plants growing now in the garden and hopefully within the next month they will be ripe enough to pick. I suggest you come over and take some photos when they are ripe. . .
I do like your white BG - it certainly makes the tomato stand out.
TFS
Janice

Hi Ralf
What an interesting idea and capture
Very good clarity and sharpness
Good note
Have a nice days
Burak

Hello Ralf,
Wonderful light, details and color.
Bright BG works well here
TFS
Selahattin E

Olá Ralf,

Mais uma vez a prova de que a simplicidade produz os melhores frutos!
Parabéns pelo trabalho, simplesmente belíssimo!
Abraço,
Sergio

Oi Ralf,
O fruto parece solto no ar. Fantástico efeito.
Abraços
Maria

Bom dia Ralf,
Fantástica textura.
Raimundo

a good study of the tomato, Ralf.. i love eating tomato.. beautiful capture.. well composed with fine detail.. tfs..

regards, terry

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