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Tomatoes / Re: Breeding with wild tomato species
« on: 2021-04-18, 11:39:33 PM »
I took a detailed look at tomato nomenclature a few months ago.
The most startling thing that I discovered is that the species most commonly called "Galapagos Tomato" is Solanum cheesmaniae. I have about 8 seeds of that species. If I plant them, I'll go all in, and risk loosing the species from my garden.
I have about 100 seeds of Solanum galapagense, which is the species that common sense would indicate should be called "Galapagos". Oh well! I have a pot of seedlings growing. As a result of this discussion, I'll plant more.
The most startling thing that I discovered is that the species most commonly called "Galapagos Tomato" is Solanum cheesmaniae. I have about 8 seeds of that species. If I plant them, I'll go all in, and risk loosing the species from my garden.
I have about 100 seeds of Solanum galapagense, which is the species that common sense would indicate should be called "Galapagos". Oh well! I have a pot of seedlings growing. As a result of this discussion, I'll plant more.