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Old June 18, 2015   #10
carolyn137
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Just a few comments.

Velvet Red is also known as Angora Supersweet, the person who bred the original changed the name

http://tatianastomatobase.com/wiki/Velvet_Red

And no, I had no fuzzy fruits for either one as Tania noted.

Silvery Fir Tree and Carrot like.

http://tatianastomatobase.com/wiki/Carrot-Like

I bought my seeds for Carrot-like in the 80's from Seeds Blum, when Silvery Fir Tree was not even known,

There is a thread here somewhere at Tville where Andrey from Belarus commented about them and said, as best I recall, that they were not the same.

About species foliage that have edible fruits.

Yes, S. pimpinellifolium, we know it as currant tomatoes, does and yes, I've grown a lot of currant ones and I do like them some better than others.

Another species is S. cheesmanii and it has edible fruits as well;

http://tgrc.ucdavis.edu/key.aspx

Click on cheesmani there and you get:

http://tgrc.ucdavis.edu/Data/Acc/tax....%20cheesmanii

Finally the connection between S Cheesmani and Galapagos Turtles.

https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q...apagos+turtles

And Finally finally finally

I had asked Amy Goldman when she went to the Galapagos Islands to bring me back seeds for cheesmani, since I knew it was salt tolerant, I knew about the connection with turtles and I knew it was edible, the tomato fruits, not the turtles, at least for me.

She brought back actual fruits and sent them to me, I saved seeds directly , with no processing and germination was 100%, But ASAP I knew they weren't cheesmanii b'c these were red, and that's when I contacted Dr. Chatelet at the TGRC and since I knew the island they came from he was able to tell me that they were a stable interspecies cross, and that was later borne out by some DNA analysis done in England.

Tania noted that Amy's daughter went with her, but no, Sara didn't, but when I sent my saved seeds back to Amy she did name it after her daughter.

I think it's a great variety, you can see that others say the same, and well worth growing.

All for now,

Carolyn
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