Currant Tomato (Lycopersicon pimpinellifolium)

Family: Solanaceae | Edibility: Choice Edible (4/5)

Lycopersicon pimpinellifolium is a ANNUAL growing to 1 m (3ft 3in) by 0.5 m (1ft 8in). See above for USDA hardiness. It is hardy to UK zone 9 and is frost tender. It is in flower from June to September, and the seeds ripen from August to October. The species is hermaphrodite (has both male and female organs) and is pollinated by Insects. The plant is self-fertile.

Edible Parts & Harvest Seasons

Edible Parts: Fruit, Berries

Harvest Seasons: Early Summer, Fall, Late Summer

Flavor & Culinary Uses

Sweet and delicious, it makes an excellent dessert fruit and is also used in savoury dishes as a vegetable. — Fruit - raw, cooked or dried for later use.; Sweet and delicious, it makes an excellent dessert fruit and is also used in savoury dishes as a vegetable.; The fruit is rather small and fiddly, about 10 - 15mm in diameter, but it is produced in quite large bunches and is well worth the effort of picking.; An edible oil is obtained from the seed.

Habitat & North American Range

Not known in a truly wild situation. (Zone 8)