About Chocolate Stripes
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