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A beef tomato (British English) or beefsteak tomato (American English) is one of the largest varieties of cultivated
In Italy, the ''cuore di bue'' has been registered, but not in France, where some companies continue naming tomatoes with different qualities ''cœur de bœuf''.
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 ...
es, some weighing or more. Most are pink or red with numerous small seed compartments ( locules) distributed throughout the fruit, sometimes displaying pronounced ribbing similar to ancient pre-Columbian
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tomato cultivars. While popular among home growers for beef sandwich toppings and other applications requiring a large tomato such as toppings on large steaks, beefsteaks are not grown commercially as often as other types, since they are not considered as suitable for mechanization as smaller slicing tomatoes.
Common varieties include:
*Beefmaster VFN (a popular hybrid beefsteak)
*Beefsteak VFN
*Big Beef
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(a pink heirloom
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variety)
*Bucking Bronco
* Cherokee Purple a dusky red/purple beefsteak, said to have exceptional flavour
*Marmande
* Mortgage Lifter (another popular heirloom tomato)
*Pink Beefsteak
''Cuore di bue'' in Italy and ''cœur de bœuf'' in France
Both in Italy, first, and France, later, a variety of beefsteak tomato is produced which looks like a beef heart in shape, as it is pointing down.
In Italy, the ''cuore di bue'' has been registered, but not in France, where some companies continue naming tomatoes with different qualities ''cœur de bœuf''.
See also
* List of tomato cultivarsReferences
Hybrid tomato cultivars {{Vegetable-stub