Developed by Jim Myers at Oregon State University, using traditional breeding methods.
It began in the 1960’s, when two tomato breeders (one from Bulgaria and the other from the United States) managed to make the first crossed-cultivated tomatoes with a wild tomato species from Chile, and the Galápagos Islands. Graduate students, working with Myers successfully crossed them together creating the Indigo Rose tomato.
The fruit are truly dark purple / black and have a red interior. The flavor is mild, floral and bright, extremely acidic and fruit forward but not sweet.
