Joran's Naturalizable Ivory Tomato: Solanum lycopersicum  

Plants with indeterminate growth, very easy to grow.  

The plants have great general resistance. Little water is needed to obtain vigorous plants, which can grow very large and produce several hundred small fruits.

These tomatoes, currant type, ivory white-yellow in color, have a thin skin and are very sweet and aromatic (typical of wild forms and primitive cultivars).  

The clusters of 6 fruits are very regular and have the advantage of being able to be harvested in one go, with pruning shears.  

The fruits are immune to black bottoms, sunburn and bursting.

The plants naturalize perfectly in dry soil: they manage to develop, bear fruit, and produce seeds, even in the worst conditions.  

After the first year of cultivation, place tomatoes at the base of the mother plant and in the places where you want to have them the following year so that they germinate on their own.

This tomato accession was acquired in 2015 from the French seed merchant: La Ferme de Sainte Marthe, specialized in old varieties. It was a traditional French cultivar named 'Champagne', because of the color of its fruits, and/or its geographical origin, since it is an old local variety from the Champagne-Ardenne department, in France.  

Over the years, it has continued to stand out in comparative tests.  

Serving as a reference cultivar, it outperformed, in total, nearly a hundred wild tomato accessions and primitive cultivars known to be drought resistant.  

Since then, they have only been selected for their ability to naturalize on dry land, in the Ardèche department, in the south of France.    

Genus: Solanum

Subgenre: Potatoe

Section: Petota

Subsection: Lycopersicon  

Series: Lycopersicon  

Species: Lycopersicum