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The Brandywine tomato is an
heirloom
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cultivar
A cultivar is a type of cultivated plant that people have selected for desired traits and when propagated retain those traits. Methods used to propagate cultivars include: division, root and stem cuttings, offsets, grafting, tissue culture, ...
of tomato
The tomato is the edible berry of the plant ''Solanum lycopersicum'', commonly known as the tomato plant. The species originated in western South America, Mexico, and Central America. The Mexican Nahuatl word gave rise to the Spanish word ...
, with large potato-leaved foliage and large pink beefsteak
A beefsteak, often called just steak, is a flat cut of beef with parallel faces, usually cut perpendicular to the muscle fibers. In common restaurant service a single serving has a raw mass ranging from . Beef steaks are usually grilled, pan ...
-shaped fruit. It is popularly considered among the best tasting available.
Description
The Brandywine tomato plant has unusualpotato leaf Potato leaf (PL) is one of two major types of leaves which tomato plants exhibit. The other type is referred to as "regular leaf" (RL). Simply stated, potato leaf tomato plants have a smooth leaf edge when compared with the serrated edge of the reg ...
-shaped foliage, with smooth, oval, pointy tipped leaves. Its sandwich-sized fruit can grow up to 1.5 lbs (0.7 kg) and has been described as having a "great tomatoey flavor", offset by an appealing acidity. It has a beefsteak
A beefsteak, often called just steak, is a flat cut of beef with parallel faces, usually cut perpendicular to the muscle fibers. In common restaurant service a single serving has a raw mass ranging from . Beef steaks are usually grilled, pan ...
tomato shape, mixed red and deep purple flesh, and can have green shoulders near the stem even when fully ripe.
The plant is heavily cultivated in spite of the fruit requiring 80 to 100 days to reach maturity, making it among the slowest maturing varieties of common tomato, and the cultivar's relatively low yield.
Due to the proliferation of many misidentified varieties the Brandywine is sometimes labeled ''Brandywine (Sudduth's)''.
History
The origins of the Brandywine cultivar remain unclear. The Burpee Seed company reports carrying it in their catalogue as early as 1886, and there are references to it older than that. Though it is often said to be ofAmish
The Amish (; pdc, Amisch; german: link=no, Amische), formally the Old Order Amish, are a group of traditionalist Anabaptist Christian church fellowships with Swiss German and Alsatian origins. They are closely related to Mennonite churches ...
origins, there is no evidence supporting this.
See also
*List of tomato cultivars
There are more than 10,000 tomato varieties available.
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Table of tomatoes
See also
* Lists of cultivars
* List of tomato dishes
Notes
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::Some tomato cultivars will be marked with disease resistance codes, signifying that the plant ...
References
Further reading
* {{Tomatoes Heirloom tomato cultivars