Lycopersicon, Tomato 'Black and Brown Boar'

What a fun tomato! Plant maxed out at a manageable 4.5" tall by 3+ feet wide. Did well during an exceptionally hot (mid 90s to mid 100s) ...Read Morefirst half of summer with daily watering. Fruits prone to cracking at the shoulders in hot dry weather. Produces steadily for months.
Tomatoes are round and average two inches diameter. Rusty olive brown skins with deep green streaks and speckles. Meaty flesh with little gel or juice and few seeds. Even overripe tomatoes will not leak all over the cutting board.
Probably the most savory and complex tomato I've tasted... black tomato flavor but with earthy dark fruit, and ending on an almost beefy umami note.
An outstanding variety that I prefer over Cherokee Purple and Paul Robeson.

A pretty, striped tomato with a nice earthy, black flavor. Black & Brown Boar was one of my earliest tomatoes this year. Tomatoes are sma...Read Morell (2-4 oz) and and the plant is prolific.

Flavor is very good to even outstanding -- I was pleasantly surprised. Juicy, good texture. Tastes more like a dark than a striped vari...Read Moreety. Fruits are a little larger than Jaune Flammee.

Black and Brown Boar is a stable (or mostly stable) unknown cross that arose in the fields of Bradley Gates of California. As far as possible parentage goes -- he says of some of the crosses that have appeared in his fields that he has saved/shared seed for: "I do know that most came from Big Rainbow, Marvel Stripe, Brandywine, Cherokee Purple, Black Krim, and Green Zebra..."

Brad's description -- "Black and Brown Boar- similar to a Cherokee Purple with flashy stripes. Includes the flavor that has made dark tomatoes famous."