I saw a tomato plant...anyone knows?

pittaro90 · December 7, 2011

Hello! Some months ago in this forum i saw a photo of a very strange tomato with very narrow leaves, it was a monstruos mutation, good only for ornament....anyone knows what variety is?
Thanks

Worth1 · December 7, 2011

Google stick tomato.

Worth

pittaro90 · December 7, 2011

It wasn't stich tomato, that leaves weren't curly, only very narrow

Worth1 · December 7, 2011

Silvery Fir Tree?

Worth

pittaro90 · December 7, 2011

It was very strange, it remembered me some cultivars of Asagao(Pharbitis nil) that have got leaves like needles...maybe it was a apeciment from the TomatoGeneticResourceCenter oe USDA seeds bank...

pittaro90 · December 7, 2011

It was quite like that plant:
http://tgrc.ucdavis.edu/Images/cm-LA...hole-plant.jpg

Worth1 · December 7, 2011

There are many varieties with the so called wispy leaves/foliage like the one in your link.

I have no idea which one it could be.
Sorry.

By the way, welcome to Tomatoville.

Worth

**carolyn137** · December 7, 2011

If it was ornamental, as you say, with narrow leaves, and I'll add finely dissected leaves I agree with Worth that it probably was Silvery Fir Tree , which some grow for the foliage and not the fruits, as well as the reverse,

It's referred to as having carrot top foliage and is also know in some circles as Carrot Top although Andrey and I think Tania suggest that the two aren't exactly the same:

http://t.tatianastomatobase.com:88/w...lvery_Fir_Tree

Lots of seed sources for it, as noted in the link above, so more pictures at those sites as well as Google IMAGES if you want to see more.

pittaro90 · December 8, 2011

Ok..thank you very much for all you fast and esaustive answers..

dustyrivergarden · December 8, 2011

I grew some plum tomatoes like that I had 8 plants same variety all really wimpy leaves I thought they were going to die. lol They did great but I thought they looked odd.

travis · December 8, 2011

Pitarro, several years ago, I think it was 2006, I found a plant in a tray of cherry tomatoes that was nearly identical to the one in the UC Davis photograph you posted a link to. The foliage looked like Silvery Fir Tree but the plant was erect, indeterminate, not bushy and with few laterals, and got about 6 or 7 feet tall grown out in a 5-gallon pot. The stems were not near as fat as Silvery Fir Tree, but very sturdy and erect. The tomatoes were slightly elongated plum cherries, red, about one inch long and 3/4 inch in diameter. The other plants in the same commercial nursery flat were normal red cherry tomatoes with normal leaf shape, not anything like this one off type.

pittaro90 · December 10, 2011

Maybe in some varieties there is a similar gene that very rarely comes in omozygosis? I'm studying biology and i know some genetic but i don't know exactly how's the genetic of tomatoes..

December 7, 2011	#1
pittaro90 Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: Italy Posts: 23	I saw a tomato plant...anyone knows? Hello! Some months ago in this forum i saw a photo of a very strange tomato with very narrow leaves, it was a monstruos mutation, good only for ornament....anyone knows what variety is? Thanks

December 7, 2011	#8
carolyn137 Moderator Emeritus Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Upstate NY, zone 4b/5a Posts: 21,169	If it was ornamental, as you say, with narrow leaves, and I'll add finely dissected leaves I agree with Worth that it probably was Silvery Fir Tree , which some grow for the foliage and not the fruits, as well as the reverse, It's referred to as having carrot top foliage and is also know in some circles as Carrot Top although Andrey and I think Tania suggest that the two aren't exactly the same: http://t.tatianastomatobase.com:88/w...lvery_Fir_Tree Lots of seed sources for it, as noted in the link above, so more pictures at those sites as well as Google IMAGES if you want to see more. __________________ Carolyn

December 8, 2011	#10
dustyrivergarden Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: Holbrook, Az zone 5 Posts: 157	I grew some plum tomatoes like that I had 8 plants same variety all really wimpy leaves I thought they were going to die. lol They did great but I thought they looked odd. __________________ “The yield of a crop is LIMITED by the deficiency of any one element even though all of the other necessary elements are present in adequate amounts”. J. Von Liebig's law of the minimum.

December 7, 2011	#2
Worth1 Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Den of Drunken Fools Posts: 38,539	Google stick tomato. Worth

December 8, 2011	#11
travis Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Evansville, IN Posts: 2,984	Pitarro, several years ago, I think it was 2006, I found a plant in a tray of cherry tomatoes that was nearly identical to the one in the UC Davis photograph you posted a link to. The foliage looked like Silvery Fir Tree but the plant was erect, indeterminate, not bushy and with few laterals, and got about 6 or 7 feet tall grown out in a 5-gallon pot. The stems were not near as fat as Silvery Fir Tree, but very sturdy and erect. The tomatoes were slightly elongated plum cherries, red, about one inch long and 3/4 inch in diameter. The other plants in the same commercial nursery flat were normal red cherry tomatoes with normal leaf shape, not anything like this one off type.

December 10, 2011	#12
pittaro90 Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: Italy Posts: 23	Maybe in some varieties there is a similar gene that very rarely comes in omozygosis? I'm studying biology and i know some genetic but i don't know exactly how's the genetic of tomatoes..