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Originally Posted by dice
"Stump of the World (6)"
That is another great name for a tomato.
It arouses instant curiousity and somehow
has connotations of "hugeness".
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Actually it was named after a bible reference.
Ben Quisenberry, who named it, was a very religious man and the stump being referred to is the stump or root of Jesse in the bible. Where I live there are many small churches that are called stump churches, also from the same bible reference.