Red Pear Tomatoes
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Description/Taste
The Red Pear is a small cherry tomatoes that produces uniform, crack resistant fruit with a sweet and tangy flavor. They have a firm texture, juicy interior, and teardrop shape with translucent inner flesh. The Red Pear plants are an indeterminate, or climbing, variety, as they are large, prolific vining plants that will continue to produce clusters of the one-inch fruit throughout the entire season.
Seasons/Availability
Pear tomatoes are available year-round, with peak season in the summer and fall.
Current Facts
The Pear tomato, also referred to as a Teardrop tomato, is a name given to the variety of tomatoes that developed from a natural occurring mutation on a cherry tomato plant, resulting in their distinctive shape. Cherry tomatoes are natural tomato, or Lycopersicon esculentum, variants. They are sometimes distinguished botanically as Lycopersicon esculentum var. cerasiforme. Although after years of horticulturists' preference for the name and authority Lycopersicon esculentum, there are those now promoting a return to the tomato’s original classification, Solanum lycopersicum.
