Coyote
Coyote | |
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Maturity | midseason |
Growth habit | indet. |
Leaf type | regular |
Fruit color | white, yellow |
Fruit shape | round |
Fruit size | cherry |
Fruit type | cherry |
Variety type | open-pollinated, wild |
Country | Mexico |
B.C KO T
- indet., large sprawling regular leaf plants. Young seedlings are bushy and compact, unlike other indeterminate cherry seedlings. Small 0.5" ivory colored cherry tomatoes with excellent sweet taste.
- Seed Source
- 1. Reimer Seeds
- 2. Rena Abernathy, Georgia 06
- 3. WI MI B 04 (Bill Minkey of Darien, Wisconsin) / NC LE C 92 (Craig LeHouiller of Raleigh, North Carolina)|2010}}
- 4. MI FL J 07 (Jeff Fleming of Augusta, Michigan) / NC LE C (Craig LeHouiller of Raleigh, North Carolina)
MI FL J
- May be L. pimpinellifolium, large sprawling vines need caging or staking, very prolific production of 0.5-inch ivory yellow cherry tomatoes, very sweet with a distinctly different earthy, fruity flavor. While the flavor is not a particular favorite of mine, I took them to a tomato tasting party where they were a big hit and were voted the best flavored variety. Listed as “other color” variety (rather than a yellow variety) in past SSE Yearbooks; now in SSE Yearbook it is correctly listed as Tomato - other species.
- Source
- Reimer Seeds / NC LE C (Craig LeHouiller of Raleigh, North Carolina)
Year: 2004, 2006
Location: Augusta, Michigan
IL LO N
- 65 days, indet., regular leaf plant, very high yield of 0.5 oz yellow cherry fruit, excellent sweet flavor.
- Source
- Reimer Seeds / WI GA J 98
Location: Oblong, Illinois
KY ST M
- Wild white/yellow cherry from Mexico, large plant gets loaded with them, voted the "Tastiest" tomato at the CHOPTAG 09 tomato tasting, sweet like eating bits of fruit.
- Source
- Reimer Seeds
Year:
Location: Sonora, Kentucky
History
- A cluster of ripe "Coyote" tomatoes, still on the vine, was given to Craig LeHoullier by Maye Clement from Vera Cruz, Mexico, in 1990 during her visit to his display at the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society Harvest Festival. She related that it was a tomato that grew wild in Mexico (Craig's note: there is more to add, but I need to find the letter she sent to me). Due to the pale color, Craig mistakenly originally listed it in the SSE yearbook as Ivory Currant - but the true name, according to Maye, is indeed "Coyote".
- Six commercial sources noted for 2004 in Garden Seed Inventory 6th edition.
Picture Gallery
Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T). Coyote (MI FL J) - leaf. 2010-07-01.
Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T). Coyote (Rena Abernathy) - leaf. 2010-07-01.
Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T). Coyote (MI FL J) - plant. 2010-07-01.
Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T). Coyote (MI FL J) - flowers. 2010-07-01.
Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T). Coyote (Rena Abernathy) - green fruit. 2010-07-16.
Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T). Coyote (MI FL J) - green fruit. 2010-08-01.
Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T). Coyote (Rena Abernathy) - ripe fruit. 2010-08-11.
Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T). Coyote (MI FL J) - ripe fruit. 2010-08-12.
Jeff Fleming (MI FL J). Coyote. 2006
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