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List of all tomato variety names

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Post: # 136023Unread post Shule
Fri Sep 27, 2024 9:28 pm

Has anyone ever attempted to compile a list of the names (and only the names) of all tomato varieties? (I know that's not particularly pracitcal, since they're not all known, and new ones appear all the time, but yeah.)

Anyway, a list like that would be nice, because then I could easily make a random tomato variety name generator.

Of course, you can always go to Tatiana's and hit random page, but I was thinking something more programmatic, with a lot more varieties.
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Sat Sep 28, 2024 1:26 am

Okay, I've started making a list. I've got 5,490, so far.
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Sat Sep 28, 2024 3:39 am

https://localfoodconnect.org.au/communi ... varieties/

19 000 varieties on this list apparently. I have not double checked numbers

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Post: # 136039Unread post karstopography
Sat Sep 28, 2024 6:50 am

With new tomatoes coming along literally every day. Is a list of all them meaningful? Any moment the list is compiled and finished there’s dozens more to add.

What will become relatively rare are tomatoes with clear or yellow skin and red flesh. The vast majority of tomatoes will be tie dyed, striped, anthocyanin, tricolor, bicolor, multi colored, purple, orange, white, green while ripe or anything but boring red or pink.
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Post: # 136041Unread post MissS
Sat Sep 28, 2024 7:58 am

Whwoz wrote: Sat Sep 28, 2024 3:39 am https://localfoodconnect.org.au/communi ... varieties/

19 000 varieties on this list apparently. I have not double checked numbers
That's a huge list. They don't have the Elbonian's on there.

It's no wonder that Tatiana gave up trying to keep up her data base. It's a never ending project. It sure was and still is a great resource though.
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Sat Sep 28, 2024 8:44 am

karstopography wrote: Sat Sep 28, 2024 6:50 am With new tomatoes coming along literally every day. Is a list of all them meaningful? Any moment the list is compiled and finished there’s dozens more to add.

What will become relatively rare are tomatoes with clear or yellow skin and red flesh. The vast majority of tomatoes will be tie dyed, striped, anthocyanin, tricolor, bicolor, multi colored, purple, orange, white, green while ripe or anything but boring red or pink.
The pinks will not disappear, although some of them with uninspiring names might. Those who do not taste with their eyes will preserve them.

What I see is many "older" antho and striped tomatoes no longer circulating widely, as the latest and greatest is released, and growers move on to those. I no longer see about 90% of the "boar" series of varieties. I guess they give new meaning to boring?

Small round red tomatoes might take the biggest hit, of traditional varieties disappearing.

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Post: # 136043Unread post slugworth
Sat Sep 28, 2024 9:03 am

I bought mamie brown tomato seeds back in the spring but had no room to start them.I will try next year.
That is a pink one.
I also have seeds for Caspian pink.
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Post: # 136044Unread post slugworth
Sat Sep 28, 2024 9:08 am

I didn't see Mainpak on the list.
A new england variety that went extinct.
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Sat Sep 28, 2024 9:09 am

"A chiseled face,Just like Easter Island" :lol:

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