The oldest illustrations of tomatoes date back to the early 1550s in Germany. However, it was the Flemish botanist Rembert Dodoens who published the first image of a tomato in 1553. In the picture – two of the first European illustrations of tomato. (A) Dodoens, p.428, 1553. (B) Fuchs, unpublished, codex 11 122, 2 (3), p.161, illustration by Albrecht Meyer, dated 1549–1556 (Baumann et al., 2001).

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