Lotaringian Beauty (Beauty Lottringa) Tomato Review & Photos

Lotaringian Beauty (Beauty Lottringa) from the catalog on the old forum.
Tall indeterminate vine, but it ended up being mid-late for me. When the heat hit, it stalled out on the third truss and dropped some blossoms, but it still ended up being very productive overall!
Firm flesh, tasty, but the skin turned out a bit thick. I’ll give it an A- because of the thick skin.

Edited November 28, 2017 by Drosera

It set fruit a bit late for me too, but put out a ton of them. Ripened fairly uniformly, but the very first tomato got BER (blossom end rot), the rest ripened perfectly fine. My daughter absolutely loved this variety, she brought them to work to brag about the gorgeous tomatoes her mom grows 😉

Edited February 11, 2015 by Drosera

I planted it this year too, just one vine. It had really poor pollination for me, so the fruit set was pretty average. Wouldn’t say it was low, but a lot of them didn’t manage to ripen in time. It finally started setting fruit properly once the weather warmed up, and the early fruits were a bit wonky, even though I picked off all the megablooms.

If I compare this variety to Salad Ribbed (from Petrov’s seeds), Beauty Lottringa is definitely more productive. If the weather conditions had been a little better for it, I think it would have been a Super Beauty.

I really liked this variety! Svetlana, thank you for the seeds! 🌻

Edited November 26, 2015 by Drosera

I actually planted Salad Ribbed and Beauty Lottringa together. They are very similar, but Salad Ribbed didn’t give me any wonky, misshapen tomatoes. I’ve been saving seeds from it for six years now, always picking the most perfectly shaped ones. Some odd ones still slip through, of course, but very few.

Gorgeous, massive, and heavy-yielding variety. Mine grew outdoors in the dirt with no cover. Super!

Seeds were from Batatovy Kushi. Indeterminate, late season, ribbed, productive (supposedly), red, sweet.
Grew it in the greenhouse. I got exactly 2 fruits off the entire vine 0_o One managed to ripen on the plant, the other I had to pick green because the whole vine wilted and the leaves curled up. I was scared of leaving a diseased plant in there so I just yanked the whole thing out. This was around mid-August.

It was a terribly ugly plant, it pushed out a massive cluster of suckers at every single leaf node, I got completely exhausted trying to prune it all. Barely had any blossoms. Very strange variety. And it tasted bland. It didn’t even get tall, maxed out around 5 ft (1.5 m).

The White/Yellow version of Lotaringian Beauty. Also a super productive and fuss-free variety, just like the red one. This variety’s main purpose is to be an ornamental “gift” tomato 😄 Gusev’s Pomidom seed catalog also sells an orange version, though for some reason they put it in their “Yellow Room” category 🙂 Has anyone grown that one?

Nataly said:
Gusev’s Pomidom seed catalog also sells an orange version… Has anyone grown that one?

I grew it:

brilliant said:
I grew it:

And what did you think? Any major differences?

Nataly said:
And what did you think? Any major differences?

I only grew it for one season, and it was a really bad year. Late variety, didn’t set many fruits, maybe it just didn’t have time to get going 🤷‍♀️ It is absolutely gorgeous, the flavor didn’t really impress me, but it wasn’t totally hollow/empty tasting either. I’ll keep growing it just for the looks for now.

brilliant said:
I only grew it for one season, and it was a really bad year…

Is it really that different in color from the white/yellow one, like a true orange? Because my white one was practically stark white 🙂 with just a very faint yellow tint at full ripeness.

And by the way, I harvested three whole mushroom crates worth of tomatoes from just two vines of the white one. And that was grown outdoors in the dirt.

Nataly said:
Is it really that different in color from the white/yellow one, like a true orange?

The color in my photo is true to life. Just a slight orange tint to it.

tomatinka said:
I actually planted Salad Ribbed and Beauty Lottringa together. They are very similar, but Salad Ribbed didn’t give me any wonky, misshapen tomatoes.

Yeah, I didn’t have any wonky tomatoes on Salad Ribbed either. But I grew them in different years, and the summer I grew Salad Ribbed was much better weather-wise, so I just blamed the misshapen fruits on the bad weather. And I completely agree, you definitely shouldn’t save seeds from the crooked, lumpy ones.

Orange Lotaringian Beauty is a truly bizarre beauty! Massive, bright yellow, accordion-shaped fruits.

Yield was decent, but when you cut it open there are huge hollow cavities inside the ribs, very few seeds, and the flavor is completely nonexistent. Honestly, the only reason to grow this beauty is just for the looks, maybe just to show off to your gardening friends?

Here is how mine turned out, grown outdoors in the dirt with no cover. Good yield.

Lotaringian Beauty is definitely a beauty. But it had low yields, for me at least anyway.

I grew Beauty Lottringa Orange, from France. Mid-season variety. It’s an analog to the standard Beauty Lottringa, but supposed to have a higher yield. Indet. The fruits are beefsteaks, oblate, heavily fluted—it looks like they are made up of individual slices of different thicknesses. Bright yellow, meaty, with thin skin. The first ones weighed 1.1-1.3 lbs (500-600 g) and larger, while the later ones were 8.8-12.3 oz (250-350 g). The flesh is juicy, tender, sweet, with a fruity aftertaste. Despite its exotic look, it produces a high, stable yield, is unfussy to care for, and is resistant to diseases and poor growing conditions. Good for fresh eating and making juices.

The yield was good, but I honestly didn’t like the flavor. The packet didn’t state the days to maturity, but mine only started turning yellow closer to autumn.

Edited January 7, 2023 by Daks

Found a photo from September 24, 2018. We had a really warm fall that year.

Grew it again in 2023 alongside Florentine Beauty. Very heavy yielder, had a long fruiting window. When you cut it open, there are hollow cavities inside, but the flavor is nice and sweet with very little acid. Looks absolutely great sliced on a platter.

Planted the Beauty from Aelita seeds. It’s literally the only variety that hasn’t given me any ripe fruit yet. To be fair, the neighboring plants completely crowded it and pinned it against the wall, so I had to top the vine early. Only the first truss developed normally.

But man, the plant pumped absolutely all of its energy into that one truss. I’ll probably have to wait another week for them to finish ripening.

I pulled that truss off yesterday.

I couldn’t wait for it to fully ripen on the vine, there are still about five green tomatoes hanging on it that haven’t even sized up yet.

The largest fruit on the truss came out to 1.38 lbs (628 g), and the smallest was 11.7 oz (333 g). Total weight of the truss: 5.95 lbs (2699 g).

I sliced open the ripest one. All those beautiful ruffles and folds turned out to be completely hollow, and the taste is absolutely bland, with just a mild acidic bite in the very center.

Oh well, let’s just say you don’t eat this one, it’s purely an ornamental for looking at.