🍅 Quick take: Piramide (sold as Domati Piramide) is an indeterminate Italian heirloom paste tomato distributed commercially in Eastern Europe by the Bulgarian seed house Florian. Shaped like a long, tapered Corno di Toro (bull’s horn) pepper, it features dense, nearly seedless dry walls packed with intense, sweet flavor. Unlike many paste varieties that turn bland with irrigation, its rich taste remains concentrated even with frequent watering.
Growers’ Notes and Field Trials (USDA Zone 6 Experience)
Original breeder catalog description:
Featuring a distinctly long, conical profile tapering down to a pointed tip, “Piramide” bears a striking resemblance to a “Corno di Toro” (bull’s horn) sweet pepper. Exceptionally meaty with very little juice or seed gel, this vintage Italian heirloom excels for rich cooking sauces with a surprisingly intense, concentrated flavor. Indeterminate vine.
Seeds labeled as Piramide were sold through the Florian seed company, which operates out of Bulgaria.
The fruits turned out delicious and stayed sweet through the entire growing season. Frequent watering never washed out or diluted the flavor. Outstanding for cooking down into paste, canning sauces, and thick puree. Great for fresh slicing in salads, too 👍 By September, the fruits on the vine sized up to an impressive bulk.
Edited November 7, 2018 by Pomidoroved
Piramide Tomatoes:
Full Summary: Plant Habit, Paste Density, Flavor, and Kitchen Use
- 🌿 Plant Type: Indeterminate vine. Vigorous, productive grower that carries its crop well into the late season.
- 🍅 Fruit Profile: Distinctly elongated, tapered horn/pyramid shape modeled after the classic Italian Corno di Toro sweet pepper. Features thick pericarp walls, minimal seed locules, and negligible watery placenta gel. Late-season fruits size up substantially.
- 👅 Flavor & Watering Resistance: Deep, old-fashioned rich tomato flavor with high natural sugars. Crucially, frequent irrigation during summer heatwaves does not dilute or wash out its flavor, an uncommon trait among high-water paste varieties.
- 🥫 Kitchen Applications: Built specifically for processing. Dense dry matter reduces simmering time down to a fraction when making gourmet pizza sauce, marinara, sun-dried tomatoes, and concentrated tomato paste. Equally suitable for solid sandwich slicing.
- 📦 Commercial Sourcing: Popularized in the Balkans and Eastern Europe through the commercial seed catalog of Florian (Bulgaria).
- 🌎 Trial Conditions: Grown under the long, warm sunny conditions of Pyatigorsk in the Russian Caucasus (USDA Zone 6).
Piramide belongs to the traditional Italian group of pepper-shaped paste heirlooms (often related to Scatolone, Corno di Toro, and giant horn-type San Marzano selections). These varieties were selected over centuries for sun-drying and sauce kitchens because of their thick hollow-free walls and low free-water content. The strain featured here was popularized by Florian Ltd., a major Bulgarian seed company that curates Mediterranean heirloom vegetables adapted to hot Balkan summers.
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