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Tomato Plant Scientific Names. Tomatoes are New World plants. They were unknown to Europeans before Columbus brought them back at the end of the 15th century. They had a variety of American Indian names and it is one of these Indian names that gives us the English word "tomato." The German name for "wolf peach" gives us the scientific name "lycopersicum."
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