Black Cherry

Black Cherry bears small, perfectly round fruits about an inch across, colored a dusky purple to mahogany brown reminiscent of the heirloom 'Cherokee Purple'. The dark skin encloses juicy flesh with a flavor often described as rich, sweet, fruity, balanced, and intensely complex compared with typical red cherry tomatoes. Its deep pigmentation is also noted to carry more antioxidants than red, orange, or yellow cherry tomato varieties.

Black Cherry is favored as a snacking tomato, eaten straight off the vine or worked into bruschetta for its sweet flavor. Its striking dark color and bite-sized round shape also make it a natural choice for shish-kebabs or for scattering through salads where its contrast stands out.

Black Cherry grows as a vigorous, productive vine, with growers noting it as reliably heavy-cropping enough to plant every season. That vigorous, spreading habit calls for a tall cage or similarly sturdy support to carry the vine's crop load through the season.

Black Cherry was bred in Florida by Vince Sapp, co-founder of Tomato Growers Supply Company. Rather than arising from a deliberate cross, it developed from a natural occurrence, and Sapp introduced it commercially in 2003.