Tomatoes

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Fun Tomato Facts

1. Tomatoes come in a variety of colors: red, yellow, pink, purple, black and white!
2. Tomato plants have been grown in space.
3. The largest tomato plant covers an area larger than an Olympic swimming pool. It is growing at Walt Disney World Resort, Florida, USA.!
4. The largest tomato grown to date 11.65 pounds. (As of Oct 8, 2022 at the Stillwater Harvest Fest in Stillwater, MN)
5. Tomatoes are berries.
6. Tomatoes originally came from Peru.
7. The USA is the 2nd largest producer of tomatoes (China is 1st)
8. Want to get messy and waste a bunch of tomatoes? Attend the annual festival in Spain, La Tomatina. Over 150,000 tomatoes are thrown at others participating in the festival.
9. Tomato Juice is the state drink of Ohio.
10. There are around 10,000 varieties of tomatoes worldwide!

Help Tommy the hornworm eat his way through the tomato!

All done, yum yum!

Plum Tomato

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Cherry Tomato

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Slicer

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Pear Tomato

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Grape Tomato

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Heart Tomato

Matching

__ Berry __ Purple

__ Black __ Red

__ Bush __ Roma

__ Cherry __ Slicer

__ Heart __ Vine

__ Pear __ White

__ Pink __ Yellow

__ Plum

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