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Adams Pearmain
Adams Pearmain is a cultivar of apple. It is a dessert apple, with a similar flavour to the Russet. It was introduced to England in 1826 by Robert Adam, under the name Norfolk Pippin.
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- 1826
Ambrosia
Ambrosia is a relatively new cultivar of apple originating in British Columbia in the early 1990s. It is medium to large in size and has mostly red colouration, with yellow patches. It has cream-coloured, firm meat with a sweet, crisp, aromatic...
Arkansas Black
The Arkansas Black is an apple cultivar, thought to have been developed in the mid-19th Century in Arkansas.
Arkansas Black apples are generally medium sized with a somewhat flattened shape. Generally a very dark red on the tree, occasionally with a...
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First developed:
- 1870
Ashmead's Kernel
Ashmead's Kernel is a triploid cultivar of apple. Traditionally Ashmead's Kernel was thought to be diploid but a poor pollinator.
Ashmead's Kernel is often reported as having been raised by Dr Ashmead in Gloucester, England in the 18th century....
Origin:
First developed:
- 1700
Aurora Golden Gala
Aurora Golden Gala is a cultivar of apple selected from a cross between the apples Splendour and 'Gala' made at the Pacific Agri-Food Research Centre (PARC), Summerland, BC. It was named in 2003 in a nationwide "Name the Apple" contest.
Aurora...
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First developed:
- 2003
Blenheim Orange
Blenheim Orange is a cultivar of apple. It was found at Woodstock, Oxfordshire near Blenheim in England in about 1740.
A tailor named George Kempster planted the original kernel and the apple, known locally as Kempster's Pippin, began to be...
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First developed:
- 1740
Neoregelia 'Dr. Who'
'Dr. Who' is a hybrid cultivar of the genus Neoregelia in the Bromeliad family. It is an interspecific cultivated variety derived from the species Neoregelia carolinae and Neoregelia oligantha, both of which are endemic to Brazil.
According to plant...
First developed:
- 1980
Adoration
The adoration variety of tomato is a hybrid tomato. It is a small (50-55g), round, cocktail tomato.
Better Boy
The Better Boy variety of tomato has been in existence for more than 50 years and is a Guinness record holder for amount of fruit produced from a single plant. The fruit grows from an indeterminate plant and is about 12 ounces, typically ripening in...
Big Rainbow
The Big Rainbow heirloom tomato is one of dozens of large fruited yellow tomatoes with red swirls, having a mild, sweet flavor. Hillbilly, is another similar coloured tomato.
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Blaby Special
The Blaby special cultivar is a red fruited tomato grown in the village of Blaby in Leicestershire until just after World War II. It was the main tomato cultivar supplied through England during the war. The cultivar ceased to be cultivated when the...
Black Krim
The Black Krim heirloom tomato is an indeterminate, dark red to brown cultivar often cited in seed catalogs as being from the "island of Krim" in the Black Sea, better known as the Crimean peninsula in Ukraine (Crimea is known in Ukrainian as Krim).
Campari tomato
Campari is a variety of tomato, noted for its juiciness, high sugar level, low acidity, and lack of mealiness. Camparis are deep red and larger than a cherry tomato, but smaller and rounder than a plum tomato.
The campari cultivar is a globe-shaped...
Cherokee purple
Cherokee purple is the name of a cultivar of tomato, unusual for the deep purple/red hue of its fruit. It was one of the first of the "black" color group of tomatoes. It is also unusual in being extremely popular for the sake of its flavor, instead...
Beefsteak
Beefsteak tomatoes are the largest varieties of cultivated tomatoes, some weighing 1 pound (450 g) or more. Most are pink or red even purplish black with numerous small seed compartments distributed throughout the fruit, sometimes displaying...
Early Girl
The Early Girl tomato is a medium globe type F1 hybrid popular with home gardeners because of its early fruit ripening. Early Girl is an indeterminate variety. It is tall growing and needs support as the plant grows. Fruit maturity claims range from...
Fourth of July
The Fourth of July tomato variety is a common cultivar of tomato plants. This is the earliest variety of non-cherry type tomatoes which might be ripe by the Fourth of July, in a typical climate.
Fourth of July tomatoes grow on indeterminate plants...
Garden Peach Tomato
Garden Peach Tomatoes are a cultivar of tomato, native South American fruit mainly from Peru, where they are known as Coconas. Its small, bright yellow fruit is the standard globe shape of tomato. With its yellow coloring, blushing vaguely pink...
Green zebra
Green Zebra is a tomato cultivar with characteristic dark green and yellow stripes. Newer variations blush reddish instead of yellow when ripe. It is more tart (described as 'spicy' and 'zingy') than regular tomatoes, and it is an early breed....
Hillbilly
The Hillbilly cultivar (originally from Ohio) is one of dozens of large fruited yellow tomatoes with red swirls, having a mild, sweet flavor. Big Rainbow,is another.
Jubilee
The Jubilee cultivar is a heavy yielding, low acid, golden fruit. It was released by Burpee Seeds in 1943.
Lillian's Yellow
This unique variety of heirloom tomato was collected some years ago by Lillian Bruce of Tennessee. Lillian passed the seed on to Robert Richardson, after which it found its way into the Seed Savers Exchange yearbook. One of the few bright yellow...
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Mortgage Lifter
Mortgage Lifter is the name given to a cultivar of tomato developed by Willam Estler of Barboursville, WV in 1922. He registered the name in 1932 several years before "Radiator Charlie". His son still produces the seed for mortgage lifter.
According...
Mr. Stripey
Mr. Stripey (sometimes confused with Tigerella) is a type of heirloom tomatoes with unusually small leaves and a mix of a yellow and red color that can fool some growers into thinking they are picking an unripe tomato. Under good conditions in size,...
Tomaccio
Tomaccio tomatoes resulted from a 12 year breeding program using a wild Peruvian tomato species. The program was developed by Hishtil in Israel. Tomaccio is a vigorous, high yielding, early fruiting cherry tomato bred primarily for the dried tomato...
Traveller
The Traveller variety of tomato is an open pollinated pink tomato in the 6 ounce range. Grows well in hot, humid climates, this tomato resists cracking.
Roma Tomato
Roma tomato or Roma (the "Roma VF" variant is most common in seed catalogs as of 2007) is a plum tomato that is commonly found in supermarkets. The tomato is a meaty, egg- or pear-shaped tomato that is available in red and yellow. It has few seeds...
Santorini
The Santorini is a cherry tomato native to Santorini, Greece.
An abbot from the monastery Kapoutsinon brought the first Santorini cherry tomatoes to Greece in 1818. The variety of tomato began to be regularly cultivated in 1875. By the 1900s, 20,000...
Super Sweet 100
The Super Sweet 100 is a hardy American cherry tomato hybrid. It is bright red in colour and matures in 55–68 days.
