The railways in Dordogne are less and less frequented by trains. Between the rails now grows a Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) plant. It is not a wild tomato, probably it comes from a fruit eaten by a traveller, or maybe it went through some bird's intestine.
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Tomates are autofertile, the pollen of a flower can fecundate the egg cells of the same flower. For this reason, quite often the 'children' af a tomato plant have the same traits for taste, size and colour as the original plant.
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Will the station manager eat fresh tomatoes? It could be, those beautiful fruits still have some weeks to ripen before it gets too cold and dark.