Skip to main content
Home

User account menu

  • Home
  • Blogs
  • News
  • Project Members
  • Resources
    • General project outputs
    • Outreach materials
    • Biodiversity recording on Cyprus
    • Wetland ecology and monitoring
    • CyDAS – Database of Alien Species
    • PoMS-Ký – Pollinator monitoring
    • Mini PoMS-Ký
    • Explore all records
    • Invasive species and biosecurity
  • Contact us
  • Log in
  • Explore Akrotiri

Solanum lycopersicum

L.
Tracheophyta » Solanales » Solanaceae » Solanum lycopersicum
Common name (English)
Tomato
Ηabitat
I1 Arable
J2.43 Greenhouse
X24 Domestic gardens (urban)
X25 Domestic gardens (rural)
X10 Mixed landscapes
X20 Treeline
Global distribution

Costa Rica, Peru, Nicaragua, Panama, Ecuador, Puerto Rico (I), Bahamas (I), Mexico (I), Cuba (I), Galapagos Isl. (I), Haiti (I), Dominican Republic (I), Venezuela (I), Colombia (I), Lesser Antilles (I), Bolivia (I), Virgin Isl. (I), Trinidad & Tobago (I), Fiji (I), New Caledonia (I), Christmas Isl. (Australia (I)), Principe Isl. (I), Sao Tome (I), Zimbabwe (I), Zambia (I), Swaziland (I), Malawi (I), Mozambique (I), Cameroon (I), Ethiopia (c), Central African Republic (I), Ivory Coast (I), Benin (I), Burkina Faso (I), Namibia (I), Mali (I), Angola (I), Mauritania (I), Gilbert Isl. (I) (Tarawa (I)), Marshall Isl. (I) (Eniwetok (I), Kwajalein (I), Ailinglapalap (I), Jaluit (I)), Marquesas Isl. (I), Micronesia (I) (Pohnpei (I)), Nauru (I), Society Isl. (I) (Tetiaroa Atoll (I), Tupai (I)), Southern Marianas (I) (Rota (I), Guam (I)), Tuamotu Arch. (I) (Takapoto Atoll (I)), Tuvalu (I) (Nui Atoll (I)), Wake Isl. (I), Chagos Arch. (I) (Diego Garcia (I)), Cook Isl. (I) (Rarotonga (I)), N-Line Isl. (I) (Fanning Isl. (I), Christmas Isl. - Kiritimati (I)), Society Isl. (I) (Tahiti (I)), Austral Isl. (I) (Tubuai (I)), Niue (I), Bonin Isl. (I) (Hahajima (I)), Chatham Isl. (I), Mauritius (I), La Runion (I), Madagascar (I), Azores (I) (Terceira (I)), Madeira (I) (Madeira Isl. (I), Ilhas Desertas (I), Porto Santo Isl. (I)), Islas Selvagens (I), Canary Isl. (I) (Lanzarote (I), Fuerteventura (I), Gran Canaria (I), Tenerife (I), La Gomera (I), La Palma Isl. (I)), Cape Verde Isl. (I) (Santo Antao Isl. (I), Sao Vicente Isl. (I), Ilha de Sao Nicolau (I), Ilha de Sao Tiago (I), Fogo Isl. (I), Ilha Brava (I)), Mauritania (c), Guinea (I), Morocco (c), Algeria (c), Tunisia (c), Libya (c), Hawaii (I) (Kauai (I), Oahu (I), Molokai (I), Lanai (I), Maui (I), Kahoolawe Isl. (I), Hawaii Isl. (I)), Rotuma Isl. (I), Andamans (I), Nicobars (I), Myanmar [Burma] (I), Laos (I), Vietnam (I), Philippines (I), India (I), Bhutan (I), Nepal (I), Pakistan (I), Lakshadweep Isl. (Laccadives) (I), Alaska (I), USA (I) (Alabama (I), Arkansas (I), Arizona (I), California (I), Connecticut (I), Delaware (I), Florida (I), Georgia (I), Iowa (I), Illinois (I), Indiana (I), Kansas (I), Kentucky (I), Louisiana (I), Massachusetts (I), Maryland (I), Maine (I), Michigan (I), Missouri (I), Mississippi (I), Montana (I), North Carolina (I), North Dakota (I), Nebraska (I), New Hampshire (I), Nevada (I), New York (I), Ohio (I), Oregon (I), Pennsylvania (I), Rhode Island (I), South Carolina (I), Tennessee (I), Texas (I), Utah (I), Virginia (I), Vermont (I), Wisconsin (I)), Canada (I) (British Columbia (I), New Brunswick (I), Nova Scotia (I), Ontario (I), Quebec (I), Saskatchewan (I)), European Russia (I), Japan (I), Anatolia (I), Rhodos (I), Australia (I), Taiwan (I), Belarus (I), Java (I), China (I), Korea (I), Kazakhstan (I), Turkmenistan (I), Tajikistan (I), Uzbekistan (I), Slovakia (I), Slovenia (I), Croatia (I) 98034 0

Hold Ctrl whilst dragging to view details of selected occurrences.

Habitat detail

Based on Georgiades (1995).

Establishment status
Not Established
Establishment status detail

Alien: Casual. Important and extensively cultivated crop on Cyprus - Meikle (Flora of Cyprus) makes no comment on its growing wild or as an escape.

Impacts
Neutral
Pathway
2 ESCAPE FROM CONFINEMENT - Agriculture – Ag
Pathway detail

Probably introduced many centuries before its first detection year (Georgiades 1995).

Other notes

as Lycopersicon escultentum in Georgiades (1995).

References

Meikle RD (1985) Flora of Cyprus, Vol. 2.

Georgiades C (1995) Η επιγενής χλωρίδα της Κύπρου. Ταξινομική, χλωριδικά, φυτογεωγραφική, οικοφυσιολογική μελέτη. [The adventive flora of Cyprus, taxonomic, floristic, phytogeographic, ecophysiological study]. Ph.D. Thesis, Athens University.

Hand R (2020) Various noteworthy records of flowering plants in Cyprus (1996–2019) and some status clarifications. Cypricola 15: 1-11.

"UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology"
Joint Service Health Unit
University of Cyprus - Department of Biological Sciences
Darwin Initiative
Akrotiri Environment

Footer menu

  • Privacy Notice
  • Terms and conditions of use
Copyright © 2025 RIS-ky. Website designed and developed by BRC