DEEP PURPLE Known as "Purple Smudge, Orange Fleshed," this rainbow tomato gets its purple color from anthocyanins, a pigment rare in cultivated tomatoes but common in their wild relatives and other fruits. VICTOR SCHRAGER
A HOUSE'S WORTH OF TOMATOES Radiator Charlie's Mortgage Lifter, shown here with currant tomatoes, helped mechanic Marshall Cletis Byles -- aka Radiator Charlie -- pay off his $6000 mortgage on his home in 1940s West Virginia. Two genes are responsible for much of tomatoes' size variations. VICTOR SCHRAGER
BASKET CASE A basket of heirloom tomatoes. VICTOR SCHRAGER
VISIONS OF PLUMS A group of plum tomatoes includes the elongated Jersey Devil on the upper left and the Opalka on the lower right. The SUN gene is responsible for much of a tomato's shape. VICTOR SCHRAGER
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THREE TOMATOES The Schimmeig Stoo (top), Green Zebra (middle), and Casady's Folly (bottom) were first introduced by Kansas breeder Thomas P. Wagner in the 1980s. VICTOR SCHRAGER
CURRANT TOMATO Goldman collected Sara's Galapagos, a type of currant tomato, on a trip to Santa Cruz Island in 2002. VICTOR SCHRAGER
