Urucara Oblate Tomato (Certified Organic)

Grown by Twin Oaks Seed Farm (VA) – 75 days – Solanum lycopersicum 

This is an unusual, notable and beautiful tomato. The ribbed, oblate, medium-small red fruits are very resistant to splitting and cracking. They have good tomatoey flavor, and also an unusual slight bitter aftertaste that you may find interesting but that isn’t for everyone. It is slight enough that you probably won’t notice it when the fruits are part of a dish or a salad. Good yields over a long period, and the fruits hold well on the plants. Indeterminate. These come from the town of Urucara in the Amazon region of Brazil. They were collected there by the Brazilian Vegetable Germplasm Bank, and then donated to the USDA seed bank (PI 441742), where we got them. The comments for the USDA listing say only: “Collected in 1978. Common in area.” This seedstock could be useful and interesting for breeding work. 357 seeds/gram.