Pineapple

Pineapple is a bicolor heirloom tomato whose oblate fruits show a yellow skin marbled with orange, red, and pink that often radiates outward from the blossom end, with the coloring carrying all the way through the flesh so every slice looks patterned inside as well as out. Single fruits commonly weigh close to a pound, and some specimens have been reported reaching as much as two pounds. The flesh itself is firm and meaty, and the flavor is described as rich, sweet, and tangy with a fruity edge.

Its mild, sweet flavor makes Pineapple a favorite for sandwiches, salsas, and sauces, and its thick, meaty flesh suits it well for slicing into fresh summer dishes. The flesh is also notably smooth and pulpy with comparatively few seeds, a texture that has made it especially well regarded as a sandwich tomato among slicing varieties.

Pineapple is a late-season tomato grown on indeterminate plants that produce heavy yields, with long vines that keep growing and fruiting until frost and need a stake or cage to hold up the heavy fruit. Fruit typically begins ripening in early August, softening considerably as it reaches peak ripeness, which is considered the best time to eat it. Compared with other bicolor tomatoes, it has been noted to resist cracking and splitting even in wet conditions, ripening into smoother, more evenly formed fruit.

Pineapple is an heirloom tomato whose origin is traced by different accounts to Kentucky and to Ohio. The Ohio account holds it as an old regional heirloom that eventually reached the commercial seed trade through the small, now-closed Gleckler seed company once based in Metamora, Ohio.