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Originally Posted by Fusion_power
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No habla mucho espanol, but I did find it interesting since many of those species names have long been considered obsolete.
There's no question,though,that the diversity of tomatoes found in Spain and Portugal is outstanding and has only recently become known.
Initially Portugal and Spain were not two countrys and when the Spanish returned from Mexico they brought with them seeds for small yellow ones, so in those two countries there has been more time than elsewhere for mutations and cross pollinations to create different varieties.
Several of us have made contact with Ilex in Spain,who lists over 90 in the SSE Yearbook, and also someone based in Mallorca who is also sourcing seeds.
Many of the ones from Ilex are being grown out for seed production this summer by several of my now 7 seed producers, and I sent many to Gerardo in San Diego/Tijuana and of course Vladimir in the Czech Republic has had a huge Spanish tomato project going until recently.
Carolyn