Solanum lycopersicum. 🌻 Sourced from a Costa Rican seed farmer. 🌻
An amazing variety and treat for home gardeners, centiflor tomatoes are the “hundred-flower” variety: their sweet, delicious fruits develop from enormous flower clusters. While not all will pollinate, many will, and it’s not uncommon to harvest branches of 40+ ripe tomatoes. Luckily, the clusters usually ripen one-by-one!
Orange centiflor tomatoes were developed by Alan Kapuler, as a natural cross of sungold and red centiflor tomatoes. They grow 0.3-1.5 meters (1-5 feet) tall and demonstrate good disease resistance.
Tomatoes have a long and deep history in the Americas; believed to have originated in southern South America, they’re named from the Nahuatl (Aztex) word “xitomatl” or “tomatl,” and have been cultivated for at least 2,500 years.
Indeterminate. Will require a tomato cages, trellising, or other support structure.
