📌 Quick Summary (TL;DR): Datterini Nero
- 🌍 Origin: An Italian-style grape/cherry tomato. The name “Datterini” translates from Italian as “Little Dates,” while “Nero” means black.
- 🌿 Plant Habit: Indeterminate. Produces beautiful, long, organized trusses of fruit.
- 🍅 Fruit Characteristics: Dark brown/mahogany, elongated grape-type cherries with subtle striping and a cute little “beak” or nipple at the blossom end. Highly resistant to cracking and splitting.
- 👅 Flavor & Texture: Very sweet and crunchy. They have a firm, satisfying snap when you bite into them.
- 📈 Bonus: Excellent holding ability. They can hang ripe on the vine for a very long time without dropping or rotting.
Black Datterini (Datterini Nero).
Indet, charming little cherry tomatoes, striped, dark brown with a tiny beak, growing in beautiful trusses. Firm, crunchy, and sweet. They can hang ripe on the vine for a long time without splitting or dropping off. Absolutely loved them!
Where are the seeds from?
Ariya said:
Where are the seeds from?
From Natasha (@priora) 🙏
If you ever see the word “Datterini” (or Datterino) in a tomato’s name, you are looking at a very specific and highly prized class of Italian tomatoes.
The word translates to “Little Dates” in Italian. This perfectly describes their elongated, oval, date-like shape. But more importantly, it describes their sugar content! True Datterini tomatoes are famous across Europe for having significantly higher brix (sugar) levels than standard round cherry tomatoes. Combined with their thick, crunchy skin (which makes them highly crack-resistant and gives them an amazing “snap” when bitten), they are widely considered the ultimate snacking tomato. The Nero (black) version shown in this thread adds the complex, earthy, and smoky flavors typical of dark anthocyanin/black tomatoes to that intense Datterini sweetness.
