Brazilian Beauty Tomato
An great early tomato with a very mysterious past. A big hit at tomato tastings with it's sweet, rich flavor. The very juicy fruits form in clusters and are saladette size--about 2" across. They are a rich, dusky mahogany red, and in my trials, they beat other saladettes like Black Trifele on every count--earliness, flavor, resistance to cracking, and yield. The vines stay a manageable size, and produce heavily until frost. (My seed crop also gave me jars and jars of sauce in addition to fresh eating.) Compact indeterminate vines stay fairly small and can be spaced a bit closer than the large tomatoes. I space them at about 2 feet.
I found these at the local farmer' market several years ago. The vendor said that back in the 1970's, he was at his brother's nursery when a hippie van pulled up, full of assorted tomato plants for sale. The nursery didn't buy them, but he got a few and took them home. This mahogany-red, saladette-size tomato was the standout, and he had been saving seed ever since. Who named it and why I have not discovered. Extremely rare--the tomato specialist I talked to hadn't seen it, or anything like it, before, and we are the only source.