Tomato · Variety record
Cherokee Purple tomato
Cherokee Purple is listed by name on Clemson HGIC 1323 and Cornell’s heirloom list. This page does not infer fruit color from the name. Growing lives on how to grow tomatoes.
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Identity record. Each row is one source assertion with a visible Source field. Heirloom here is a source table label, not a BioArva class.
Cited identity rows
Separate source assertions — not a BioArva average.
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Clemson HGIC 1323 (South Carolina)Their Recommended Cultivars table lists Cherokee Purple. Naming-on-sheet — not a ranking of cultivars and not a grow-how claim.Source
Clemson HGIC 1323 (South Carolina)Their Recommended Cultivars table marks Cherokee Purple growth habit as I (indeterminate). Habit on their sheet — not a staking method.Source
Clemson HGIC 1323 (South Carolina)The Comments cell on the Cherokee Purple row reads Heirloom. That is Clemson’s attributed table label — not a BioArva classification, legal class, organic claim, or permission to save seed.Source
Cornell (New York)Under Heirlooms, their tomato growing guide lists Cherokee Purple. Naming-on-sheet — not a ranking and not a grow-how claim.
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