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Tattalichin
Early and heavy set of 3" round fruits on compact, determinate
plants.
IA SSE HF 97 - POLA KO T
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Tegucigalpa
Heavy set of 2½x1" tapered red fruits that look almost exactly
like a cluster of hot peppers; excellent flavor, excellent
in fresh salsas; wispy leaves; one of my favorite new varieties
in 2000.
ENGL PA U 00
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Texas Wild
Very heavy set of ½" fruits on large, sprawling
vines; excellent flavor; fruits tend to remain on stems when
ripe (ulike most other wild tomatoes); excellent sweet flavor,
wonderful in salads; grows wild in south Texas.
from Doreen Howard, 2000
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Tigerella
Smooth, round 2-2.5" diameter fruits with red flesh and red
and orange striped skin; attractive.
WI PE C 91 .... (?) OH BE R 88 - ENGL WY J
a.k.a. Mr. Stripey; English heirloom
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Tigerette Cherry
1½" long plum-shaped red fruits with bright orange stripes;
plant 1' tall with pale green-yellow leaves; very attractive
potted plant; determinate
ENGL PA U 00 WI MI B received his seed from Ake Truedsson
in Sweden in 1994.
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Tlacolula Ribbed
4", strongly fluted, heart-shaped dark pink fruits;
somewhat hollow inside; leaves with whitish-blue tint; similar
to Zapotec Ribbed.
from Reinhard Kraft,
Neukirchen, Germany
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Tobago
Smooth, 2½" red globes; very firm flesh and somewhat seedy
Seeds obtained March, 1999 from market in Scarboro, Tobago.
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Tomate Grande
Clusters of 5-8, 2" diameter perfectly smooth, red spheres
that simply refuse to crack; very thick flesh; excellent for
canning and fresh salsa; one my year 2000 favorites.
Collected summer 1999 by Kate Horkman in Guatemala.
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Tomate Pequino
Clusters of 7+, 3x2" red plum fruits; thick flesh; excellent
for canning and fresh salsa.
Collected summer 1999 by Kate Horkman in Guatemala.
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Tonnelet
2-2½" elongated egg-shaped fruits on 4½' vines; flesh red,
soft; moderately seedy; skin red with orange stripes; beautiful
paste tomato which dried well and tasted better; one of my
1996 favorites.
IL LO N 96 - BELG DI G Obtained by Luc Fichot in 1990.
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Trucker's Favorite
Good set of bright pink 3.5" smooth globes; very pretty and
nice variety; I'll grow this again.
WI AN R 97 - WI MI R2 95 - MO BA J 93 - OK ST F 91 - CV Burgess
83 From WI MI R2: "listed in the 1945 Jung Seed catalog, my
father grew this tomato for 40 years and upon his death I
found he hadn't any seed left."
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Turkey Chomp
2½-3" red seedy fruits on 3½" vines with yellowish leaves;
fruit changes from green-white to yellow to amber to red;
differs from Lutescent in its larger fruits and yellow flowers.
MO WA C 96 - CA BR D
Donald Branscomb, Clearlake, CA
Donald maintained the Tomato Seed Bank of over 1000 varieties.
He had been gardening for 44 years in 1987.
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Urbana
Light yield of 3" smooth, round fruits.
WI PE C 87 - CV Jung 87
Only 1 commercial source remained in 1998
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Velvet Red
Very attractive plant with white-downy leaves; good production
of 1" diameter cherry tomatoes; I found the flavor to be very
good; definitely a variety worth growing.
NY MA C 97 - NJ BR J 96
Joseph J. Bratka, Elmwood Park, NJ
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Verna Orange
Up to 7" almost seedless light-orange oxheart fruits.
UT DR S 96 .... (?) NC LE C - IA CA D 89
David Cavagnaro
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Vigne Grimpante
Very heavy set of 1¼" diameter smooth red fruits in clusters
of 10+ fruits; good flavor.
IL SW J 00
Originally from Parreira Norbet of Halliner, France, 1992.
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Violette's Polish
Heavy set of 4x2½" sausage-shaped fruits; almost seedless;
excellent canning tomato; unlike most other sausage-shaped
paste tomatoes, the fruits tend to stay on the plant until
ripe.
I received seed from Violette Klopotek of Green Bay, WI,
obtained seeds a number of year ago from a friend in Milwaukee
(click here to read her
note).
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Vorlon
'And so it begins...' (to quote our favorite Vorlon, Ambassador
Kosh); 4" smooth deep purple-pink globes with green shoulders
on potato leaf plant; excellent flavor; meaty. Named for the
enigmatic alien race of the T.V. program Babylon 5.
ME FI J 99
Joe Fisher, Winterport, ME
Wild cross of Cherokee Purple and Pruden's Purple.
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