Chocolate Stripes

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Developed by John Siegel of Covington, Ohio, from a cross between Schimmeig Creg and a pink beefsteak and introduced to SSE by Al Anderson of Troy, Ohio in 2007. One of the Top 3 “best-tasting” tomatoes of the 2006 and 2007 Gary Ibsen’s Carmel TomatoFest event. Large, indeterminate, regular-leaf tomato plants yield a plentiful crop of 3-4 inch, mahogany colored with dark, olive green-striping (similar to black zebra). Fruits have delicious, complex, rich, sweet, earthy tomato flavors. Chocolate Stripe, another desirable ‘black tomato,” is an excellent tomato and a fine choice for your tomato garden. Produces well into the autumn. A great sandwich tomato and salad tomato.

Varieties

Open Pollinated

Fruit Colors

Brown / Green / Striped

Flesh Colors

Black

Fruit Shapes

Oblate

Fruit Sizes

Large

Culinary Uses

Salad / Slicer

Maturities

Mid-season

Plant Types

Indeterminate

Origins

Ohio

Leaves

Regular

Flavors

Smokey / Sweet / Well-balanced