PlantFiles: Tomato
Lycopersicon lycopersicum 'Persimmon'

This variety produced good sized tomatoes but production didn't impress me. This variety has a decent taste but not real acidic. I made spaghetti sauce with some of them and had several compliments on the taste and the color.

this tomato produced large flavorful fruit in 2007. I picked the largest and saved seed for this year have had at least 80% come up. Will repost as to how well the new plants do. The plants I raised in 2008 did well and will continue to raise.

I have grown this tomato in a pot for two years now. It is true that the plant does not make a lot of tomatoes, but the ones it makes are large, and they are very tasty. They have a creamy, almost salty taste. They are wonderful on a sandwich and a beautiful color. Mine have not gotten orange but instead a golden yellow. I will definitely continue to grow this tomato.

Not the best tomato in my garden this year and not the worst. I am neutral on them. They seemed to get mushy on the vine and never get that orangish color in everyone elses pictures. Only got to yellow. So I started picking them earlier and let them ripen inside. The weather was weird for us, very rainy, so that could have contributed to things. I love the look of the yellow/orange tomato cut up and mixed with red tomatoes.

Extremely delicious, very large orange fruit. Very creamy texture, similar to Dr. Wyche's Yellow. Not a huge producer, but not stingy either. It's growing beautifully here in the hot, dry desert conditions in Lancaster, Ca. Summer days are always above 90 degrees, and very frequently above 100 with about 15% humidity.

It's a keeper!

One of my favorite orange tomatoes. The plants are vigorous, and I've had minimal disease problems. The fruits are HUGE, very meaty, with a rich, sweet flavor - great for sandwiches. The only flaws are that the total yield of tomatoes per plant is a bit lower than most other varieties (although still quite acceptable), and the fruits mature late, so my Persimmon season is a short one. Given the fantastic flavor, I'm more than willing to put up with these shortcomings.

Bright persimmon orange fruit. Meaty, juicy, good flavored, but tough skinned. This was a plus in 2004 when wet weather in NC ruined most of the tomatoes in the area. The foliage was taken out by the late blight that hit everything here, but the thick skinned fruit resisted cracking and disease lesions. These were the only fruit I had left after the rains.

Bright "persimmon" colored fruits grow 1-2 lbs., some with lime shoulders. Very meaty with few seeds, plants produce abundantly.