Types Of Orange Tomatoes To Grow In Your Garden – Add Color And Sweetness To Any Dish!

The most common tomatoes are the classic red varieties, but orange tomatoes add some fun to salads, sandwiches, and other meals. There are tomatoes in many shades like pink and purple, but the orange tomato varieties brighten any dish with their golden hues. Modern breeding has resulted in orange varieties of slicing, plum, and cherry tomatoes.

Orange tomatoes are caused by a mutation. This different colored tomato is the result of a recessive mutant allele dubbed “tangerine”. Tangerine plants are the first heirloom orange tomatoes discovered. Today we have dozens of orange fruits from which to choose.

Growing tomatoes is relatively easy and success can be had no matter the size of the garden. Bountiful harvests are possible with a container-grown plant on a balcony or patio.

Orange Cherry Tomatoes

Orange cherry tomatoes are sweeter, and juicier than their larger relatives. Small orange tomatoes like Indigo Kumquat or Golden Cherry have the same sweetness of red varieties. Crisp, juicy fruit that pops in the mouth, delivering flavor like a ray of sunshine. Cherry tomatoes are easy to grow, great for smaller spaces, and excellent in containers. They also mature much quicker than the larger varieties of tomato.

• Orange Paruche - deep orange fruit
• Sun Gold - Introduced in the 1990s, very popular
• Orange Hat - Dwarf tomato plant great for small spaces
• Dwarf Eagle Smiley - light orange large fruits
• Katinka Cherry - Indeterminate tomato with plentiful harvest
• Sun Sugar - Indeterminate and crack resistant
• Sweet Orange - Hybrid, reddish orange fruit
• Toronjina - small, sweet cherry, indeterminate
• Orange Sunshine - Hybrid cherry that is firm and sweet

Orange Heirloom Tomatoes

Heirloom tomatoes are grown from seed saved for at least 50 years, and sometimes up to 100 years. They are primarily open pollinated by wind, insects, or other acts of nature. It was an heirloom named Tangerine that started the orange tomato craze, but several other varieties have also been grown.

• Amish Gold - Pear tomato with orange skin and flesh, considered rare
• Big Orange Stripe - Large slicing tomato
• Caro Rich - Heavy orange fruits
• Dad’s Sunset - Medium fruit with fruity flavor
• Djena Lee’s Golden Girl - Plum tomato, prize winner
• Dwarf Blazing Beauty - Medium fruit, prolific
• Elbe - Grows well in cooler climes
• Faribo Gold Heart - Medium slicing tomato, said to have a “nutty” flavor
• German Gold Strawberry - Heart shaped fruits
• Glory of Moldova - Bright orange tomatoes
• Kellogg’s Breakfast - Kellogg's Breakfast tomato is a huge, deeply orange fruit
• Moonglow - Indeterminate, round fruits
• Roughwood Golden Plum - Small, dense orange fruits
• Russian Persimmon - Flat globular fruits, deep orange flesh

Orange Hybrid Tomato Varieties

Plant breeders are forever harnessing interesting traits of one plant and crossing it with another. This results in hardier plants that are more pest and disease resistant, while having fruits of better flavor, longer storage life, and better transportability. It also results in a wild array of colors and forms. This is demonstrated beautifully in the tomato breeding world.

• Chef’s Choice - Medium sized slicing fruit, disease-resistant tomato and an award winner
• Sweet Tangerine - Determinate, slicing fruit
• BHN 871 - Disease resistant, round slicer
• Orange Banana - Indeterminate plum
• Orange Slice - Beefsteak tomato great for slicing
• Orange Minsk - Huge beefsteak, incredible color
• Peach Blow Sutton - Introduced over 100 years ago, medium slicing tomato
• Orange Fizz - Crack-resistant grape tomato
• Perfect Flame - Small fruits, dense flesh, sweet

Honorable Mention

'Orange Jazz' is an orange fruit with faintly lighter striping. The 'Orange Peach' garden peach tomato is perfectly round and has a peachy hue. 'Woodle Orange' produces picture perfect fruits in a tangerine hue. And last but not least, 'Orange Accordion'. The fruit is huge, ruffled, and packed with a fruity flavor. The lobed fruit has dense flesh and a sweet taste. Fruits can get up to 20 ounces (.57 kg) in weight.

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