Sprawling annual herbs, 0.6-2 m tall, viscid pubescent, odorous. Leaves pinnately compound or divided, 10-40 cm long, apically obtuse, basally oblique, cuneate; leaflets mostly 5-9, sessile or petiolulate, unequal, ovate or oblong, 5-7 cm, entire or irregularly dentate, sparingly glandular-pilose; petiole 2-5 cm long. Peduncle 2-5 cm, little or not branched, often 3-7-flowered, pedicel 1-1.5 cm long. Flowers with calyx rotate-campanulate, lobes lanceolate; corolla 2-2.5 cm in diam., lobes narrowly oblong, 8-10 mm, often reflexed; filaments ca. 1 mm long, anthers 6-10 mm. Berry red or orange-yellow, subglobose, fleshy, juicy, shiny; seeds straw colored, 2-4 mm, pilose.

PENGHU: Hsingjen. Road no. 1., Chen 716, Fengkua, Loa 16. PINGTUNG: Oluanpi, Shimizu 12188. TAITUNG: Chihpen, Lin 681.

Native to tropical America, plants of this variety are now nearly cosmopolitan in distribution. In Taiwan, frequently occurring in disturbed areas in the south at low elevations.

Lycopersicon esculentum var. cerasiforme is the ancestral stock from which the large cultivated tomato (var. esculentum) was domesticated. Plants on Taiwan are probably feral populations that have regressed from cultivated var. esculentum rather than ancestral material.