I saw a tomato plant...anyone knows?
 

Hello! Some months ago in this forum i saw a photo of a very strange tomato with very narrow leaves, it was a monstruos mutation, good only for ornament....anyone knows what variety is?
Thanks

Google stick tomato.

Worth

It wasn't stich tomato, that leaves weren't curly, only very narrow

Silvery Fir Tree?

Worth

It was very strange, it remembered me some cultivars of Asagao(Pharbitis nil) that have got leaves like needles...maybe it was a apeciment from the TomatoGeneticResourceCenter oe USDA seeds bank...

It was quite like that plant:
[URL]http://tgrc.ucdavis.edu/Images/cm-LA0272-whole-plant.jpg[/URL]

There are many varieties with the so called wispy leaves/foliage like the one in your link.

I have no idea which one it could be.
Sorry.

By the way, welcome to Tomatoville.:)

Worth

If it was ornamental, as you say, with narrow leaves, and I'll add finely dissected leaves I agree with Worth that it probably was Silvery Fir Tree , which some grow for the foliage and not the fruits, as well as the reverse,

It's referred to as having carrot top foliage and is also know in some circles as Carrot Top although Andrey and I think Tania suggest that the two aren't exactly the same:

[URL]http://t.tatianastomatobase.com:88/wiki/Silvery_Fir_Tree[/URL]

Lots of seed sources for it, as noted in the link above, so more pictures at those sites as well as Google IMAGES if you want to see more.

Ok..thank you very much for all you fast and esaustive answers..

I grew some plum tomatoes like that I had 8 plants same variety all really wimpy leaves I thought they were going to die. lol They did great but I thought they looked odd.

Pitarro, several years ago, I think it was 2006, I found a plant in a tray of cherry tomatoes that was nearly identical to the one in the UC Davis photograph you posted a link to. The foliage looked like Silvery Fir Tree but the plant was erect, indeterminate, not bushy and with few laterals, and got about 6 or 7 feet tall grown out in a 5-gallon pot. The stems were not near as fat as Silvery Fir Tree, but very sturdy and erect. The tomatoes were slightly elongated plum cherries, red, about one inch long and 3/4 inch in diameter. The other plants in the same commercial nursery flat were normal red cherry tomatoes with normal leaf shape, not anything like this one off type.

Maybe in some varieties there is a similar gene that very rarely comes in omozygosis? I'm studying biology and i know some genetic but i don't know exactly how's the genetic of tomatoes..