{"id":13987,"date":"2022-01-25T18:12:57","date_gmt":"2022-01-26T02:12:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/heritageseedmarket.com\/?post_type=product&#038;p=13987"},"modified":"2026-08-18T09:49:26","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T16:49:26","slug":"tomadose-des-comores","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/heritageseedmarket.com\/index.php\/product\/tomadose-des-comores\/","title":{"rendered":"Tomadose des Comores"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Grown, sold, and described by <a href=\"http:\/\/heritageseedmarket.com\/?p=38\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Bunny Hop Seeds<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Plant growth: indeterminate<\/li>\n<li>Leaf type: regular leaf<\/li>\n<li>Time to maturity: midseason<\/li>\n<li>Approx. number of seeds per pack: 15+<\/li>\n<li>Germination tested after Hot Water Seed Treatment for Fungal and Bacterial Diseases<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cTomadose des Comores\u201d is firstly the most delicious small red cherry tomato I have eaten so far, being sugar sweet and of excellent texture in my 2021 trial. It is secondly a variety of mystery. Let\u2019s talk about that, and I must shorten my discussion here to fit on the page. My seed packet was labeled, \u201cTonadose des Conores, A rare French heirloom.\u201d There does not seem to be a translation of this spelling in any language. I came upon several speculations that the correct word is \u201cComores,\u201d which is the French word for \u201cComoros,\u201d which is the country consisting of a group of islands in the Indian Ocean, roughly located between Madagascar and East Africa. One of the major islands is still considered a region of France, while the other islands collectively make up the Union of the Comoros. Okay. So we have a tomato that possibly came from some part of Comoros, perhaps brought into France from Mayotte (my own ignorant speculation), which has been a possession of France since 1841. But what about \u201cTomadose?\u201d I read a claim that the word is translated from French and means \u201ccherry tomato\u201d; however, the French term is \u201ctomate cerise.\u201d What REALLY interests me is that the translations I can find of \u201ctomadose des\u201d are Spanish and some Portuguese, meaning \u201ctaken from.\u201d A Portuguese translation of \u201cTomadose des Comores,\u201d (to English) is \u201ctaken from the Comoros.\u201d Another resource claimed that \u201ctomadose\u201d is what residents of \u201cAntilles and French Guyana\u201d (Andr\u00e9 Charrier et al., ed., Tropical Plant Breeding) call the wild cherry tomato \u201cLycopersicum esculentum var. cerasiforme.\u201d Yet, this \u201cL. esculentum var. cerasiforme\u201d originated (so far as we know) in Peru\u2026which was settled by the Portuguese in the early 1700s. This tomato was \u201ctaken from\u201d Peru and distributed to many places. I am wondering if the Portuguese term for \u201ctaken from\u201d became mistakenly thought to refer to this tomato, rather than a tomato taken from somewhere. It makes sense to me (and probably to nobody else) that this variety is NOT an heirloom from France\u2026it may have been grown in France but it was brought there from Comoros. It seems that this might be a Comorian heirloom, if we consider that the variety changed at all from its original form in Peru. This variety was \u201ctaken from Comoros,\u201d possibly by the French to France, and became known as \u201cTomadose des Comores.\u201d<br \/>\nONE PACKET PER ORDER PLEASE<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":13988,"template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[12,35,107,8],"product_tag":[],"class_list":["post-13987","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","product_cat-bunny-hop-seeds","product_cat-cherry-grape","product_cat-ellies-wow-varieties","product_cat-red-tomatoes","first","instock","sold-individually","shipping-taxable","purchasable","product-type-simple"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/heritageseedmarket.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/13987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/heritageseedmarket.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/heritageseedmarket.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heritageseedmarket.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/heritageseedmarket.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heritageseedmarket.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=13987"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heritageseedmarket.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=13987"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heritageseedmarket.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=13987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}