Sunlight Tomato
Popular for its remarkable ability to illuminate those that consume it, sunlight tomatoes are grown all around Barbas, archipelago continent on Capepo. The flaky orange skin with pulsating yellow stripes make this fruit unmistakeable in a crop field. These tomato plants usually grow around three metres tall and require extra support to maintain said height. A single plant may produce as many as a hundred fruits in a single season.
Sunlight tomatoes are heavily featured in salads and cold meals around its native region. The slightly acidic flavour adds a warm kick to any meal, and is a popular staple.
Taxonomy
Sunlight tomatoes are in the genus Solanum, alongside other tomatoes, potatoes, and aubergines. This genus falls under Solanaceae, the nightshade family.
Anatomy
Sunlight tomatoes have an unmistakeable hue, with shimmering golden skin. It peels off when ripened, after morphing from a dark green. The stem and stalk of the plant is a dark green, the main stalk splitting off into around thirty smaller parts. Each one grows about three fruit.
The flesh of this tomato is a white, with a pink placenta. The seeds are near invisible when inside the plant, darkening when detached from the placenta.
Some variants of these tomatoes have been cultivated to produce different colours. A paler version, colloquially referred to as the cloudy tomato, are popular around the Nimbian Islands.
Varieties
Cloudy
Cloudy variants have a whiter colouration, tasting lighter and creamier.Platinum
Platinum variants are a shiny platinum colour, and difficult to keep alive.Black-Spotted
Black-spotted variants have black or brown spots around the base of the tomato.Kit
Kit variants are more elongated, with ridges.Runner
Runner variants are slightly reddish. Named after their tendency to drop off their stalk and roll away.Glassy
Glassy variants have a slight prismatic sheen to them. Best to wear sunglasses when harvesting.Habitat
Sunburst Forest
Glamorous pink woodlands
Sunlight tomatoes are native to the Sunburst Forest, in the north of Masan Island. It is one of the biggest rainforests in northern Barbas, covering around seven hundred square kilometres.
This forest is home to a plethora of magical-dependent organisms. A prismatic sheen covers this islands, which magnifies any magical energy within. As a result many creatures undergo a magical evolution, which modifies their genetic makeup to the point they become completely new species. Sunlight tomatoes are one such organism, which only started appearing around two hundred years ago.
Painted Fields
Eccentric heathlands
Some of the biggest cities on Capepo are found in the Painted Fields, including Ammi and Nidularia, two cities with populations in the tens of millions.
Other variants of these tomatoes have been introduced throughout Barbas and eastern Veresta. They are one of the most popular fruits grown by amateur and professional gardeners alike, as they are easy to maintain provided one has access to a solarium.
Solariums on Capepo are specialised attachments to houses - occasionally entire buildings themselves - which magnify both sunlight and magical energy. This helps gardeners cultivate all manner of plants grown around the globe.
Wild sunlight tomatoes are especially common in the Painted Fields, sprawling heathlands in central Veresta. They grow in large clusters, and are a dominant plant. They outcompete other plants for resources, and they have spread far and wide.
Oooo, glowy tomatoes. I think the runner variety is my favourite because I like the image of them rolling away.
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Thank you! Maybe I'll draw some varieties :D