Diva de Deva Tomato (Prima Donna from Deva) Review & Photos

Diva de Deva (Prima Donna from Deva) is an old family heirloom from Romania, grown in the village of Vața de Jos near Deva. Thanks to long-term selection, Romanian tomatoes are considered some of the best-tasting in the world, and old local varieties have remained unchanged to this day.

Mid-season, productive and cold-tolerant indeterminate variety. The plant is tall, up to 6-6.5 ft (1.80-2 m). Regular leaf. Fruits are bright red, oblate with ribbing at the stem, weighing 8.8-17.6 oz (250-500 g). The flesh is crimson-red, buttery, with low gel and seed content. Gorgeous old-fashioned tomato flavor, sweet and rich. Used for salads, slicing, and making delicious sauces.

I really loved this variety. The vine was about 6 ft (1.80 m) tall, sturdy, strong, I grew it to 2 stems. The fruits looked perfectly uniform, meaty, with melting buttery flesh, large, weighing 10.5-12.3 oz (300-350 g). The flavor is rich, sweet, very pleasant. Fruiting lasted a long time, excellent yield.

Family heirloom from the Romanian region of Deva, mid-early indet with large, red fruits weighing up to 17.6 oz (500 g). The tomatoes are oblate, flesh is crimson-red with a rich old-fashioned flavor, mostly leaning toward sweet. Excellent variety for thick sauces.

Mine got bigger than 17.6 oz (500 g). A wonderful, absolutely delicious variety. Seeds from @Tatiana2305 🎩

Yeah, very tasty and productive variety! It’s got a permanent spot in my garden. Grew it in 2023 and 2024 outdoors in the dirt.

Grew this variety last year, figured I got off-type seeds. Planted it again this year. Nope, it’s correct, the seller listed the weight at 5.3-17.6 oz (150-500 g), and that’s exactly what I got. It just sets a ton of fruit on the truss, like 7-8 tomatoes. Both last year and this year it was a super variety for yield and taste.

Edited October 10, 2024 by Murka

Doesn’t look like it at all. No resemblance in fruit shape.

Lyuda, take a look at the photos from Sadovaya Pchelka.

Sadovaya Pchelka.

I looked at Julia @Tiffany ‘s, and checked on Rus Bazar.

Edited October 11, 2024 by Khrizantema57

I looked at Julia @Tiffany ‘s, and checked on Rus Bazar.

We’re just messing around of course, Lyuda, Leisan got hers from Alyona Voronina, her site has the exact same one Leisan and I have. I wrote to her of course, maybe she’ll answer.

Alyona Voronina

Look at the slice photos from Alyona and Laysan. No questions about Alyona’s.

Family heirloom from the Romanian region of Deva, mid-early indet with large, red fruits weighing up to 17.6 oz (500 g). The tomatoes are oblate, flesh is crimson-red with a rich old-fashioned flavor, mostly leaning toward sweet. Excellent variety for thick sauces.

Mine got bigger than 17.6 oz (500 g). A wonderful, absolutely delicious variety. Seeds from @Tatiana2305 🎩

Diva de Deva (Prima Donna from Deva, Romania)

A wonderful variety, productive and very tasty 😋, thanks for the seeds and the recommendation 🙏

Edited November 13, 2025 by Svetikk

I grew this variety again from another source, and fact is, there are two versions of this variety floating around. The one from last year showed up at Alyona Voronina’s, she was sent it from Romania in a swap a few years ago. Most likely that’s where the mix-up happened that caused us to ask questions. The large Diva in Russia comes from Pascal.

A gorgeous variety, meaty, thick, tasty flesh. Large.