List of tomato cultivars
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This is a list of tomato varieties / cultivars / breeds. Please include, when possible, determinate/indeterminate/other, resistance (VF or other), fruit shape, color, size in ounces, days to maturity, hybrid/heirloom, leaf shape (PL for potato leaf, RL for regular leaf, also A for Angora, et cetera).
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Common name | Maturity | Resistance | Type | Size | Vine | Shape | Description |
1884 | 78 days | Heirloom | 16-32 oz. | Indeterminate | Beefsteak | Said to have been discovered by James Lyde Williamson near Friendly, West Virginia in a pile of flood debris from the Ohio River in 1884. | |
Abraham Lincoln | 80-90 days | Heirloom | 12-16 oz. | Indeterminate | Globe | Introduced in Illinois in 1923. | |
Fourth of July | 49 days | Hybrid | 4 oz. | Indeterminate | Globe | May be the very earliest of all non-cherry tomato cultivars, moderately heavy producer. | |
Ace 55 | 80 days | VF | Heirloom | Indeterminate | Globe | Super-low acidity | |
Amish Paste | 85 days | Heirloom | 6-8 oz. | Indeterminate | Paste | As the name implies, best for paste/sauce. Oblong shape, good taste. | |
Beefsteak | 90 days | Heirloom | Indeterminate | Beefsteak | archetypical broad, lobed variety | ||
Beefmaster | 80 days | Hybrid | Indeterminate | Beefsteak | Purportedly the very best version of beefsteak. | ||
Better Boy | 82 days | Hybrid | Indeterminate | Globe | Improved version of the original Big Boy. | ||
Campari | 69-80 days | T | Hybrid | Medium | Indeterminate | plum, RL | noted for sweetness and low acidity |
Celebrity | 70 days | VA | Hybrid | Indeterminate | Globe | ||
Cherokee | 80 days | VF | Heirloom | Large | Determinate | Globe | Not related to Cherokee purple or brown. |
Crimson Cushion | 90 days | Heirloom | Large | Indeterminate | Ribbed | Wilt-resistant | |
Delicious | 77 days | Heirloom | 24 oz. | Indeterminate | Globe | Set World Record for weight in 1986 at 7 lb 12 oz (3.5 kg) | |
Earliana | 65 days | Heirloom | 6 oz. | Indeterminate | Globe | Introduced in 1900. | |
Early Girl | 50 days | VF | Hybrid | 4-5 oz. | Indeterminate | Globe | Very early, smooth round/oval fruit in the 6oz range. |
Extreme Bush | 50 days | Hybrid | 3 oz. | Bush | Globe | Extended-season determinate. | |
Goliath | 85 days | Heirloom | 36 oz. | Indeterminate | Beefsteak | Very large tomato. | |
Liz Birt | 75 days | OP | Medium | Indeterminate | Beefsteak | Sweet fruits with a more pronounced acid taste, derived from 'Brandywine' X 'Cherokee Purple'. | |
Matchless | 85 days | Heirloom | 6 oz. | Indeterminate | Globe | Created by W. Atlee Burpee in 1889. | |
Matt's Wild Cherry | 55 days | Heirloom | Tiny | Indeterminate | Cherry | Tiny tomato, supposedly found in the wild in Mexico, where the first wild tomato plants may have originated. | |
Moneymaker | 80 days | Heirloom | 5 oz. | Indeterminate | Globe | ||
Mortgage Lifter | 80-85 days | Heirloom | Indeterminate | Beefsteak | Very large heirloom tomato developed by M.C. 'Charlie' Byles in Logan, West Virginia in the 1930s. He sold the tomato plants for a dollar each and paid off his $6000 mortgage in only 6 years. | ||
Red Brandywine | 100 days | Heirloom | Indeterminate | Beefsteak | May be related to the original Brandywine, but is red instead of pink with green shoulders, and has normal leaves. | ||
Red currant | 70 days | Heirloom | Tiny, berry-sized | Indeterminate | Cherry | A South American species of tomato, possibly the same as its wild cousin. | |
Roma | 75 days | VF | Heirloom | Determinate | Paste | Standard paste tomato, cylindrical to pear-shaped. | |
Rutgers | 75 days | VF | Heirloom | 6 oz. | Determinate | Globe | One of the most standard heirlooms, crack-resistant. |
San Marzano | 85 days | Heirloom | Indeterminate | paste | considered finer than Roma, haute cuisine paste tomato. Cylindrical to pear-shaped, a signature tomato of Italian cuisine. | ||
Small Fry | 65 days | VFN | Hybrid | Determinate | 1 inch | Ideal variety to grow in containers, disease resistant. | |
Sun Sugar | 57 days | Hybrid | 1/2-3/4 inch | Indeterminate | Cherry | Small orange fruit, early ripening, high sugar content, and thin skinned. | |
Super Fantastic | 70 days | VF | Hybrid | Indeterminate | Globe | Heavy producer of large, smooth, round fruit with a good balance of sweet and acidic. | |
Sweet 100 | 55 days | VF | Hybrid | 1 inch | Indeterminate | Cherry | One of the most popular cherry tomatoes, super-productive, sweet. |
Sweet Chelsea | 64 days | VFFNT | Hybrid | 1 inch | Indeterminate | Cherry | Improved version of Sweet 100, resistant to 10 diseases as well as cracking and drought. |
Sweet Million | 75 days | VFNTSt | Hybrid | 1 inch | Indeterminate | Cherry | More productive version of Sweet 100, can produce over 500 fruits. |
Three Sisters | 75 days | Potato leaf | 6 oz. | Indeterminate | pleated, roma, globe | This breed actually can bear any one of three types of tomato: A single-pleated variety, a roma style, or a pleated, flattened fruit. | |
Tiny Tim | 45 days | Heirloom | 1 oz. | Bush | Cherry | Extremely tiny plant, can grow and produce in a three inch (76 mm) pot, plant is 10 to 12 inches (300 mm) tall. | |
Variegated | 75 days | Heirloom | 2 oz. | Indeterminate | Globe | Leaves are, as the name implies, yellow and green. Extremely decorative, but with tasty red fruit. | |
Pink | |||||||
Common name | Maturity | Resistance | Type | Size | Vine | Shape | Description |
Brandywine | 90 days | Heirloom PL | Indeterminate | Beefsteak | Amish origins. | ||
Dwarf Champion | 80 days | Heirloom | 8 oz. | Tree | Globe | Rugose leaves | |
Giant Belgium pink | 85 days | 32 oz. | Indeterminate | Globe | Low acid, sweet. | ||
New Big Dwarf | 90 days | Heirloom | 16 oz. | Tree | Beefsteak | Been around for 90 years. | |
Pink Beefsteak | 70 days | Indeterminate | Globe | As the name implies, medium beefsteak variety, even more pink than typical beefsteaks. | |||
Sweet Quartz | 65 days | VFNT | Hybrid | 1 inch | Indeterminate | Cherry | Disease resistant pink cherry tomatoes, grows very tall. |
Violaceum Krypni-Rozo | 80 days | Heirloom | 8 oz. | Indeterminate | Scalloped | Bizarre scalloped fruit, extremely deep and numerous lobes has a pretty, unique style. | |
Orange | |||||||
Amana Orange | 90 days | 16 oz. | Indeterminate | Beefsteak | Beefsteak-style fruit is orange, has a mild flavor. | ||
Ida Gold | 59 days | Heirloom | 3 oz. | Determinate | Globe | Low acid, good flavor. | |
Orange Jubilee | 70-80 days | Indeterminate | Paste | Mild, non-acidic tomato with meaty thick walls and few seeds. | |||
Yellow | |||||||
Azoychka | 60 days | Heirloom | 8 oz. | Indeterminate | Globe | Russian in origin, citrus flavor. | |
Banana Legs | 75 days | Heirloom | 4 inches long | Indeterminate | Paste | Similar in shape and color to a small banana, may rarely have faint green stripes. | |
Blondkopfchen | 75-80 days | Heirloom | Indeterminate | Cherry | Small, sweet golden tomato with high yields. Crack resistant. Originates from Germany. | ||
Garden peach tomato | 80 days | Indeterminate | Globe | Yellow fruit has fuzzy skin and resembles a peach. | |||
Yellow Brandywine | 100 days | Heirloom | Indeterminate | Beefsteak | PL, Amish origins. | ||
Black / Purple | |||||||
Aunt Ginny's Purple | 80 days | Indeterminate | Beefsteak | Flavor is said to be similar to brandywine, though it produces more. | |||
Bear Creek | Early-Midseason | Large | Indeterminate | Globe | Attractive fruits of fine flavor and good production, named for Bear Creek Farm in Osceola, Mo. | ||
Black Cherry | 65 days | Indeterminate | 1 inch | Indeterminate | Cherry | Blackish red, a-la cherokee purple. | |
Black Krim | 80 days | 12 oz. | Indeterminate | Globe | Dark purple with green shoulders. | ||
Black Russian | 75 days | Small | Indeterminate | Globe | Pretty, plentiful small black fruit. | ||
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80 days | 16 oz. | Indeterminate | Globe | Purple shoulders, originally grown by Cherokee Indians, extremely popular flavor. | ||
Chocolate Cherokee | 80 days | Indeterminate | Globe | Crimson with brown/black shoulders. | |||
Dora | 80-85 days | Indeterminate | Beefsteak | Large beefsteak type fruits developed solely for flavor, regular leaf. | |||
Gary O' Sena | 70-75 day | Large | Indeterminate | Beefsteak | Pink purple fruits, potato leafed, developed from Brandywine x Cherokee Purple. | ||
Green | |||||||
Common name | Maturity | Resistance | Type | Size | Vine | Shape | Description |
Aunt Ruby's German Green | 80 days | 16 oz. | Indeterminate | Beefsteak | |||
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72 days | Indeterminate | Globe | Supposedly especially good and mild tasting. | |||
Green Bell Pepper | 76 days | Indeterminate | Globe | Not actually a green pepper, but shaped and colored like one, inside and out. Tastes like a tomato. | |||
White | |||||||
White Wonder | 80 days | 32 oz. | Indeterminate | Beefsteak | Huge, white with yellow tint. | ||
Snow White Cherry | 70 days | 1 inch | Indeterminate | Cherry | Small, blushing green with a white-ish tint caused by a reflective surface. | ||
Multicolor | |||||||
Black Zebra | 85 days | Indeterminate | Globe | Brown with black stripes, deep, sweet flavor. | |||
Green Zebra | 78 days | 4 oz. | Indeterminate | Globe | Two tone with green stripes. | ||
Mister Stripey | 56 days | 6-24 oz. | Indeterminate | Beefsteak | Yellow with red/pink stripes. | ||
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59 days | 2 to 4 oz | indeterminate | globe | red with yellow stripes |
[edit] Disease resistant abbreviations
- V = Verticillium wilt
- N = Nematodes
- F = Fusarium Wilt
- FF = Fusarium, races 1 & 2
- A = Alternaria stem canker
- T = Tobacco mosaic virus-resistant
- St = Stemphyllium