List of tomato cultivars
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This is a list of tomato varieties / cultivars / breeds. Please include, when possible, determinate/indeterminate/whatever, resistance (VF or whatever), 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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[edit] Indeterminate
Indeterminate tomato plants have vines that grow ever longer, and they bear fruit continually until they die.
| Indeterminate | ||||||
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| Red | ||||||
| Common name | Maturity | Resistance | Type | Size | Description | |
| Ace 55 | 80 days | VF | heirloom | super-low acidity | ||
| Amish Paste | 85 days | heirloom | As the name implies, best for paste/sauce. Oblong shape, good taste | |||
| Beefsteak | 90 days | heirloom | archetypical broad, lobed variety | |||
| Beefmaster | 80 days | hybrid | purportedly the very best version of beefsteak | |||
| Better Boy | 82 days | hybrid | improved version of the original Big Boy | |||
| Celebrity | 70 days | VA | hybrid | |||
| Crimson Cushion | 90 days | heirloom | large | ribbed, wilt-resistant | ||
| Delicious | 77 days | heirloom | 16oz fruit | few seeds | ||
| Earliana | 65 days | heirloom | 6oz fruit | introduced in 1900 | ||
| Early Girl | 52 days | VF | hybrid | Very early, smooth round/oval fruit in the 6oz range | ||
| Goliath | 85 days | heirloom | 48 oz. | largest known tomato | ||
| Liz Birt | 75 days | OP | medium to large | sweet fruits with a more pronounced acid taste, derived from 'Brandywine' X 'Cherokee Purple' | ||
| Matchless | 85 | heirloom | 6oz fruit | created by W. Atlee Burpee in 1889 | ||
| Moneymaker | 80 | heirloom | 5oz fruit | |||
| Monkey's Ass | 80 | heirloom | large | red fruit divided into two lobes on one side, ergo the name | ||
| Mortgage Lifter | 85 | beefsteak fruit, its creator sold plants to pay off his mortgage | ||||
| Red Brandywine | 100 days | heirloom | Regular Leaf plants | |||
| Roma Tomato | 85 days | heirloom | standard paste tomato, pear-shaped, from Italy | |||
| Super Fantatic | 70 days | VF | hybrid | heavy producer of large, smooth, round fruit with a good balance of sweet and acidic. | ||
| Three Sisters | 75 days | Potato leaf | 6oz fruit | This breed actually can bear any one of three types of tomato: A single-pleated variety, a roma style, or a pleated, flattened fruit. | ||
| Pink | ||||||
| Brandywine | 90 days | heirloom PL | Amish origins | |||
| Giant belgium pink | 85 days | 32 oz fruit | Low acid, sweet | |||
| Pink beefsteak | 70 days | as the name implies, medium beefsteak variety, even more pink than typical beefsteaks | ||||
| Violaceum Krypni-Rozo | 80 days | heirloom | 8oz | bizarre scalloped fruit, extremely deep and numerous lobes has a pretty, unique style | ||
| Orange | ||||||
| Amana Orange | 90 days | 16oz | beefsteak-style fruit is orange, has a mild flavor | |||
| Yellow | ||||||
| Garden peach tomato | 80 days | yellow fruit has fuzzy skin, and is yellow, therefore resembles a peach | ||||
| Yellow Brandywine | 100 days | heirloom | Amish origins | PL | ||
| Black / Purple | ||||||
| Aunt Ginny's Purple | 80 days | flavor is said to be similar to brandywine, though it produces more | ||||
| Bear Creek | early-midseason | large | attractive fruits of fine flavor and good production, named for Bear Creek Farm in Osceola, Mo | |||
| Black Krim | 80 days | 12oz fruit | dark purple with green shoulders | |||
| Black Russian | 75 days | small | pretty, plentiful small black fruit | |||
| Cherokee purple | 80 days | 16oz fruit | with purple shoulders, originally grown by Cherokee Indians | |||
| Chocolate cherokee | 80 days | crimson with brown/black shoulders | ||||
| Dora | 80-85 days | large beefstake type fruits developed solely for flavor, regular leaf | ||||
| Gary O' Sena | 70-75 day | large | pink purple fruits, potato leafed, developed from Brandywine x Cherokee Purple | |||
| Green | ||||||
| Aunt Ruby's German Green | 80 days | 16 oz | beefsteak style | |||
 Emerald Evergreen |
72 days | Supposedly especially good and mild tasting | ||||
| Green Bell Pepper | 76 days | not actually a green pepper, but shaped and colored like one, inside and out. Tastes like a tomato. | ||||
| White | ||||||
| White wonder | 80 days | 32oz fruit | huge and yellowish white | |||
| Multicolor | ||||||
| Black Zebra | 85 days | brown with black stripes, deep, sweet flavor | ||||
| Green Zebra | 78 days | 4oz fruit | with two tone green stripes | |||
| Mister Stripey | 56 days | 6 to 18 oz | large beefsteak-style fruit is yellow with red/pink stripes | |||
[edit] Dwarf indeterminate, semi-indeterminate, tree-type, et cetera
[edit] Red
- Extreme Bush -- 50 days -- heavy producers, extended season determinate
[edit] Pink
- Dwarf champion -- 80 days -- 8oz fruit
- New Big Dwarf -- 90 days -- 16oz fruit, been around 90 years, illustrating why you should never name anything "New..."
[edit] Yellow
- Azoychka -- 60 days -- 8oz fruit, yellow inside and out
[edit] Black / purple
[edit] Green
[edit] White
[edit] Determinate
[edit] Red
- Cherokee -- VF -- 80 days -- Not related to Cherokee Purple
- Marglobe -- VF -- 75 days -- large fruit, fewer spaces and seeds
- Rutgers -- 75 days -- heirloom -- 6oz fruit, crack resistant
[edit] Pink
[edit] Yellow
[edit] Black / purple
[edit] Green
[edit] White
[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
