Kangaroo Paw Brown Tomato
Price: $2.95
SKU: 3403331
90 days, dwarf — 'Kangaroo Paw Brown' is a later season variety with plants that are vigorous, prolific, uniform, compact dwarf in habit with rugose, regular leaf foliage. The fruit are round to flattened-globe in shape, two to six ounces in weight, and have deep crimson flesh and dark, chocolate colored shoulders when ripe. Very tasty.
Developed by members of the "Dwarf Tomato Project" as a selection out of the "Witty family" ('Budai Torpe' and 'Cherokee Green', cross made by Patrina Nuske Small of Australia). 'Kangaroo Paw Brown' was selected and named collaboratively by Patrina, Tim Warren and Craig LeHoullier (Patrina chose "Kangaroo Paw," with Tim and Craig adding the color designation). Team members involved included Patrina, Tim, Craig, Jay Scott, Kevin Taylor, Bob Fromm, Dee Sackett, Howard Kushner, Carol Knapp, Doug Frank, and Bill Minkey. Introduced by us for the 2016 gardening season. Each packet contains approximately 20 seeds.
Fruit Color: Black
Special Groups: Container Friendly
Special Groups: Dwarf Tomato Project
Harvest Timing: Late Season
Customer Reviews:
By Cathleen Bartone (northern Wisconsin) on September 27, 2024
This variety didn't do well for me. I had four plants, each in a 14" pot, spaced along the foundation wall of the house. They grew poorly compared to the three other dwarf varieties I had, and produced few flowers/fruits. They were very susceptible to verticillum. All the other dwarfs and determinates/indeterminates I was growing all did much better.
By Craig LeHoullier on February 9, 2022
The three Kangaroo Paw tomatoes - chocolate, yellow and yellow - are perfect salad and grilling varieties. They have lovely well balanced flavors, with perhaps some nuance differences between the three colors (or do they? If tasted blind, would that change perceptions?). They all possess the quality genes of one of their parents, Cherokee Green. They are healthy, productive plants.
