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Solanum lycopersicum Family: Solanaceae (so-LA-num ly-koh-PER-see-kum) Common name: ‘Yellow Pear’ |
| Description: An open-pollinated, heirloom tomato. Miniature pear-shaped fruits are 1 – 2 inches (2.5 – 5 cm) in size, gathered in abundant clusters up the plant. Thick skins means they are quite crack resistant. Low in Acid but deliciously sweet flavour.
Special Notes: Originated in Europe sometime in the 1700s. There are also orange and red varieties of the pear-type, or teardrop, tomato. The yellow variety was one of the vegetables grown when the seven acres owned by the Hudson’s Bay Company at Fort Vancouver was converted to a vegetable farm in 1825, after the Company had stopped operating as a fur trading centre.
Posted on April 7, 2015 |
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