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Scientific name Solanum lycopersicum var. Cucurbita Similar Potato onion, Annona purpurea, Cocona, Ugli fruit, Phytophthora capsici | ||
A Pumpkin tomato is a large variety of tomato that has been cultivated since at least the early 1800s and thought to have originated in Peru and Northern Chile.
Pumpkin tomatoes range in size from an apple up to the size of a pumpkin (hence the name), and can range from being spherical to slightly oblong in shape. The more oblong ones often share characteristics with Marmande tomatoes. They are occasionally mixed up with peppers due to their size and the characteristic nitrogen stripes which cause the characteristic "pumpkin" ribs.
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