Illustration of Rosella Purple tomato
Illustration based on known variety traits. Appearance varies by growing conditions.

No. 044 · open-pollinated

Rosella Purple

Rosella Purple is a dwarf open-pollinated dwarf tomato with dusky purple red with greenish brown shoulders fruit. It ripens in about 80 days.

Typedwarf tomato
Habitdwarf
Days to maturity80
Fruit size6 to 12 oz
Colordusky purple red with greenish brown shoulders
Difficultymoderate

Flavor

Described as a sweet, rich, intensely flavored balance of sweetness, acidity, and savory umami, rated among the best tasting dwarf varieties. This is the recurring catalog and grower description, not a measured claim.

Origin

Bred in 2006 by Patrina Nuske Small in Australia from a cross of Budai and Stump of the World, released through the Dwarf Tomato Project and introduced by Victory Seeds in 2011.

What it does well

  • Compact dwarf plant around 3 feet, good for containers
  • Produces full sized 6 to 12 oz fruit despite the short plant
  • Intense, well balanced flavor
  • High yielding for a dwarf

Where it frustrates

  • Greenish brown shoulders persist when ripe, making ripeness hard to judge
  • Lower total yield than a full sized indeterminate

Like Rosella Purple, but...

Sold out, or after a change? The closest alternatives, and how they differ.

Cherokee Purplebut Rosella Purple delivers a similar dusky purple flavor on a container sized dwarf plantTasmanian Chocolatebut Rosella Purple leans purple and sweeter where Tasmanian Chocolate is a brown determinate slicer

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