[Tania]

Originally Posted by carolyn137

Ami, after rereading your link above I decided to do a bit more Googling about what's being called German Orange Strawberry. Remembering that Marjorie Morris of IN sent me the original seeds for what she called Orange Strawberry which was from a stray seed in a pack of the variety Pineapple.

First, I think what's happened is that someone somewhere knew that German Red Strawberry is a family heirloom, and that's true and my original seeds for that one also from Marjorie Morris, so just added German to the Orange Strawberry one which is in no way German.

Even more amusing was when I went to Google IMAGES and looked up Orange Strawberry, German Orange Strawberry and German Red Strawberry:

http://www.google.com/search?tbm=isc...2-6.3.0.3l12l0

http://www.google.com/search?tbm=isc...1438l2-3.2l5l0

http://www.google.com/search?tbm=isc...63l0.2.4.2l8l0


So pick a shape for any of them, pick a color, pick a size and then take your pick b'c you can get almost anything from any of them I suppose depending on a seed source.

I especially liked the striped German Red Strawberry and the one that looked like a piriform with all that ribbing.

Sigh. It seems there is a lot of mixup and confusion out there re both the German Red Strawberry and Orange Strawberry tomatoes. I am guessing because of 'similar' names? The bi-colored picture in the Google search is probably a wrong label, I think I have seen this picture before as a different tomato, in any event it looks very familiar to me.