What's this Tomatoes name

[charley]

I recently went to the store and bought a heirloom tomato and it's a bicolor and since there's not very many and they all look different I was thinking maybe we could figure out what kind of tomato this is. Any ideas.

[ContainerTed]

I'd call it "The Mystery Heirloom Tomato That Looks Like So Many Others". Like; Beefsteak, Big Beef OP, Holyland, etc., etc., The shape pushed my opinion to those names.

Once the name gets separated from a fruit, it's usually not possible to be sure of what the fruit's name is. My first impression was that the green striping on the lower tomato might be a ripeness issue, and the first name that came to my mind was Beefsteak, elongated, red, size, slight ruffling.

[carolyn137]

Charley,it doesn't look like a typical gold/red bicolor I've grow and there are several hundreds of such bicolors known. I've grown maybe 30 of them.

They all start out as yellow/gold, then from the blossom end a reddish pink blush moves upwards towards the stem end, but for most never makes the whole fruit look pinkish red.

Here's one example of a typical bicolor

http://tatianastomatobase.com/wiki/Lucky_Cross

The only one I know of where the final color is all pinkish/red is

http://tatianastomatobase.com/wiki/M...German_Bicolor

And when you cut the fruits open you see that pinkish red color on the inside.

So two colors,as in bi color two on the outside and two on the inside.

Whatever it is,with hundreds of ones know,as Ted said above, there's no way of being able to ID it.

But whatever it is I hope you enjoy it and hope that it's NOT the one called Mr.Stripey.

Carolyn

[KarenO]

I think it is a pink tomato that is just not ripe yet or unevenly ripening. Leave it at room temp for a few days and it's possible the colour will continue to develop. Even "heirlooms " commercially grown are likely picked green and possibly gassed to ripen.
As far as ID, it's not possible to tell although if you know who grew it, that could help.
KarenO

[carolyn137]

Originally Posted by KarenO

I think it is just not ripe yet or unevenly ripening. Leave it at room temp for a few days and it's possible the colour will continue to develop. Even "heirlooms " commercially grown are likely picked green and possibly gassed to ripen.
As far as ID, it's not possible to tell although if you know who grew it, that could help.
KarenO

Agree.

Charley you said you bought it at a store,what kind of store was it? If a large grocery store you could ask the Produce manager where they came from and often,but not always, the produce manager would give you contact info re how to reach them.

But being in TX, as Karen said, there's a good chance they came from Mexico, and Karen, I don't know if there are any so called ethylene gas chambers in Mexico, as there are in FL.

Let's just say that sometimes that works,but the majority of the time,no.

Several times I've asked someone to go back to the Farmer's market or roadside stand to do the same.

Carolyn

[charley]

I know it was a stretch trying to find out what it was but you never know this is the only sticker that was on the tomato. And now that I've blown the sticker up and can read a itty bitty small writing on the outside it looks like in Spanish it says genetically modified

[NarnianGarden]

It says 'free of Genetically Modified organisms'..

[Gardeneer]

If you show a cross cut, migh narrow it down.
I am just guessing : Mr. Stripy.

[Worth1]

Originally Posted by NarnianGarden

It says 'free of Genetically Modified organisms'..

Libre.
liberty.
Free.