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Originally Posted by Fusion_power
The only tomatoes I know of that can be used as winter pantry types are from Italy. King Humbert fills the bill.
DarJones
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Darrel, there are many winter "hanging" ones from Spain as well. Here's a Google search;
http://www.google.com/#fp=927651d2b2...matoes&start=0
And on the second page of that search here's a link to Alan B's site where he's discussing the gene involved with winter types and talks about the Spanish ones, and you participated in that thread so maybe you forgot about the Spanish ones.
http://alanbishop.★★★★★★★★★.com/thread/7115
It doesn't surpise me that it was mentioned that the winter ones no doubt appeared in Spain first b'c that's where the Spanish brought back the first ones from Mexico and the first ones were yellow. Red ones then eventually appeared in Spain and it was Spanish missionaries who took them to Italy. Yes. Italy also had some of those first yellow ones from Spain as well, as in Pomodoro, aka pomme de Oro, aka Apple of Gold.
Andrew Smith's book on the history of the tomato does an excellent job of outlining where tomatoes were distributed by the Spanish after taking them from Mexico.
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_no...Smith+tomatoes
Andy has written many interesting books as well as being a large contibutor of that Oxford Encyclopedia that's listed. His expertise has been histories of different items we eat
http://alanbishop.★★★★★★★★★.com/thread/7115
Yes, longkeeper types are discussed in the above link as well, but also discussed specifically are the ones that are hung up as winter ones.
Carolyn
Edited to add that I'm sorry that the one link was disabled twice, but you can find it on the second page of the general Google link that I also linked to.