Quick Summary of Yablonelistniy (Jablonelistnij / Apple-Leaved)
- 🌍 Origin: A Russian heirloom whose name translates to “Apple-Leaved”. It became famous in European and American seed circles under the transliteration Jablonelistnij. Due to misread cursive handwriting on seed packets (an uppercase ‘J’ being mistaken for an ‘F’), it is also widely, but incorrectly, circulated as Fablonelystynj.
- 🌿 Plant Habit: Indeterminate and highly vigorous. If pruned and grown in a greenhouse, it can easily reach over 2 m (6.5 ft). If left unpruned, it forms a massive, sprawling bush about 1 m (3.3 ft) tall, growing in all directions.
- 🍅 Fruit Characteristics: True “mini-beefsteaks”. They are bright yellow, heavily ribbed, multi-locular cherry tomatoes weighing just 10–25 g (0.3–0.9 oz). Visually, they look exactly like giant heirloom beefsteaks shrunk down to bite-size.
- 👅 Flavor & Use: A classic, mild yellow tomato flavor. It is sweet but distinctly lacks acidity. Because of their stunning and unique ribbed shape, they are highly recommended as an eye-catching garnish for salads and culinary dishes.
- ⏳ Maturity: Mid-season. Highly productive with excellent fruit set, producing 6 to 10 flowers per truss and bearing fruit reliably until late in the season.
She (on the German forum) recommends using this small, meaty yellow tomato for garnishing salads and other dishes.
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And here is how it grew for me this year.
Fruit weight: 10-25 g (0.3-0.9 oz)
Fruit color: Bright yellow; the shape is just like large, meaty beefsteaks.
Taste: Typical for large yellow tomatoes, slightly lacking in acidity.
Height: Over 2 m (6.5 ft).
Growing method: In the greenhouse, pruned to two stems. I think it’s better to let it run to 4 stems.
Yield: A lot of fruits in numbers, but by total weight — almost one kilogram (2.2 lbs).
In this last photo, Yablonelistniy is shown next to Black Cherry.
Yablonelistniy (Apple-Leaved) !!!
An interesting mini-beefsteak. Colors up in trusses of 6 to 10, the fruit set is excellent.
As is fitting for beefsteaks, it has many seed locules.
The taste didn’t surprise me, just a normal tomato flavor—or more accurately, the typical taste of yellow tomatoes. We ate them straight off the bush and occasionally tossed them into salads.
It is sitting under a rain shelter for us, and is still covered in little tomatoes and flowers, growing alongside another mini-beefsteak, Petit Chocolat. We didn’t prune the suckers at all; it grew in all directions. Bush height is up to 1 meter (3.3 ft).
Regarding the name… Handwritten ‘F’ and ‘J’, especially if the handwriting isn’t calligraphic, look very similar. The stroke wasn’t understood by someone down the line. And that’s exactly where the mistake came from—resulting in that incomprehensible variety name (Fablonelystynj – the third name in the forum title), which doesn’t belong to any Slavic language.
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