Tomato · Variety index
Types of tomatoes
Types of tomatoes on this page are garden fruit-type classes and named cultivar records. Cherry, grape, beefsteak, and plum are classes, not cultivar pages. Growing lives on how to grow tomatoes. This is not a grocery or canning guide and not a ranking of tomato varieties.
Browse index. Class rows and record cards are separate source assertions with a visible Source field. Classes are not cultivars. No seed offer on this page.
Cited fruit-type classes
Separate source assertions — not a BioArva average.
Source
Clemson HGIC 1323 (South Carolina)Under Fruit Types, their sheet names cherry tomatoes as small tomatoes. Class naming on their sheet — not a cultivar record, not food copy, and not a ranking. Not Black Cherry.Source
Clemson HGIC 1323 (South Carolina)Under Fruit Types, their sheet names grape tomatoes as small tomatoes. Class naming on their sheet — not a cultivar record, not food copy, and not a ranking.Source
Clemson HGIC 1323 (South Carolina)Under Fruit Types, their sheet names beefsteak tomatoes as having large fruit. Class naming on their sheet — not a cultivar record and not food copy.Source
Clemson HGIC 1323 (South Carolina)Under Fruit Types, their sheet names Roma or plum tomatoes as having medium-sized, oblong fruits. Class naming on their sheet — not the Roma cultivar record and not food copy.
Sourced cultivar records
Six live records. Each card is a naming assertion plus a link. Identity depth lives on the record, not here.
Illustrative photograph — confirm variety identity from your seed source
Roma
Source
Their Recommended Cultivars table lists Roma — not Roma VF. This card is that table’s cultivar string, not Roma VF.
Illustrative photograph — confirm variety identity from your seed source
San Marzano
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Their Recommended Cultivars table lists San Marzano. This card is that table’s cultivar string — not Lampadina and not a DOP or food claim.
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Cherokee Purple
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Their Recommended Cultivars table lists Cherokee Purple. Naming-on-sheet — not a ranking.
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Brandywine
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Their Recommended Cultivars table lists Brandywine. Naming-on-sheet — not a ranking.
Illustrative photograph — confirm variety identity from your seed source
Black Krim
Source
Their common heirloom list names Black Krim. Naming-on-sheet — not a ranking.
Illustrative photograph — confirm variety identity from your seed source
Celebrity
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Their Recommended Cultivars table lists Celebrity. Naming-on-sheet — not a ranking.
Cited catalog names (index rows, not pages)
Separate source assertions — not a BioArva average.
Source
Clemson HGIC 1323 (South Carolina)Super Sweet 100 — listed; growth habit I (indeterminate); Comments: Cherry.Source
Clemson HGIC 1323 (South Carolina)Black Cherry — listed; growth habit I (indeterminate); Comments: Cherry. Index row only — not a class page.Source
Clemson HGIC 1323 (South Carolina)Matt’s Wild Cherry — listed; growth habit I (indeterminate); Comments: Cherry.Source
Clemson HGIC 1323 (South Carolina)Smarty — listed; growth habit I (indeterminate); Comments: Grape.Source
Clemson HGIC 1323 (South Carolina)Sun Gold — listed; growth habit I (indeterminate); Comments: Cherry; Orange fruit. Clemson’s Sun Gold string — not NCSU Sungolds.Source
Clemson HGIC 1323 (South Carolina)Amelia — listed; growth habit I (indeterminate).Source
Clemson HGIC 1323 (South Carolina)Better Boy — listed; growth habit I (indeterminate).Source
Clemson HGIC 1323 (South Carolina)BHN 589 — listed; growth habit D (determinate).Source
Clemson HGIC 1323 (South Carolina)Big Beef — listed; growth habit I (indeterminate). Not Big Boy.Source
Clemson HGIC 1323 (South Carolina)Carolina Gold — listed; growth habit D (determinate); Comments: Orangish-yellow.Source
Clemson HGIC 1323 (South Carolina)Early Girl — listed; growth habit I (indeterminate).Source
Clemson HGIC 1323 (South Carolina)Rutgers — listed; growth habit I (indeterminate).Source
Clemson HGIC 1323 (South Carolina)Mountain Majesty — listed; growth habit D (determinate).Source
Clemson HGIC 1323 (South Carolina)Burpee’s Long-keeper — listed; growth habit I (indeterminate).Source
Clemson HGIC 1323 (South Carolina)Plum Regal — listed; growth habit D (determinate).Source
Clemson HGIC 1323 (South Carolina)Mariana — listed; growth habit D (determinate).Source
Clemson HGIC 1323 (South Carolina)Grandero — listed; growth habit I (indeterminate).Source
NCSU Extension (North Carolina)Big Boy — named. Not Big Beef and not a Clemson table row.Source
NCSU Extension (North Carolina)Manapal — named.Source
NCSU Extension (North Carolina)Fantastic — named.Source
NCSU Extension (North Carolina)Sungolds — named. Not Clemson’s Sun Gold string.Source
NCSU Extension (North Carolina)Juliet — named.Source
NCSU Extension (North Carolina)Bush Early Girl — named. Not Early Girl.Source
NCSU Extension (North Carolina)German Johnson — named.Source
NCSU Extension (North Carolina)German Pink — named.Source
NCSU Extension (North Carolina)Mountain Delight — named. Not Mountain Merit.Source
NCSU Extension (North Carolina)Colonial — named.Source
NCSU Extension (North Carolina)Mountain Fresh — named. Not Mountain Merit.Source
NCSU Extension (North Carolina)Pik Red — named.Source
NCSU Extension (North Carolina)Sunrise — named.
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How we know — methodology. Ranges and assertions are cited per source, not blended.