160+ Golden Yellow Tomatoes!
Tired of planting the same old red tomato varieties each year? Now’s the perfect time to try your hand at cultivating stunning yellow tomatoes to share with family and friends!
Besides the common red fruits, various tomato cultivars and varieties can produce glossy yellow-skinned and fleshed fruits of varying shades, shapes, and sizes.
Here are great golden yellow-skinned tomato varieties:
- Abracazebra
- Amarillo
- Ananas Noire
- Apple Yellow
- Armenian
- Aunt Gertie’s Gold
- Aunt Molly’s Ground Cherry
- Azoychka
- Banana Legs
- Basinga
- Beam’s Yellow Pear
- Beauty King
- Beauty Queen
- BHN 901
- BHN YC1
- Bi-Color Cherry
- Big Rainbow
- Big Tiger
- Big White Pink Stripes
- Blondkopfchen
- Blush
- Brandymaster yellow
- Carolina Gold
- Cerise Orange
- Chef’s Choice Striped
- Chello
- Copia
- Cream Sausage
- Csiko Botermo
- Dagma’s Perfection
- Dr. Carolyn
- Dr. Wyche’s Yellow
- Egg Yolk
- El Dorado
- Elberta Girl
- Flaming Burst
- Galina
- Garden Peach
- Georgia Streak
- Get Stuffed
- Giallo De Summer
- GinFiz
- Gold Medal
- Gold Nuggets
- Gold Spark
- Goldene Konigin
- Golden Gem
- Golden Girl
- Golden Mama
- Golden Peach
- Golden Ponderosa
- Golden Queen
- Golden San Marzano
- Goldie
- Green Zebra Cherry
- Hartman’s Yellow Gooseberry
- Hillbilly
- Honey Bunch Yellow
- Honey Delight
- Honey Drop
- Honeybee
- Hugh’s
- Husky Gold
- Igleheart Yellow Cherry
- Ildi
- Indigo Gold Berries
- Isis Candy
- Jubilee
- Lemon Boy
- Lemon Cherry
- Lemon Drop
- Lemon Tree
- Lime Green Salad
- Limmony
- Lollipop
- Lucky Cross
- Maglia Rosa
- Manyel
- Marizol Magic
- Marvel Stripe
- Matthew
- Mingle Mix
- Mint Julep
- Mirable Blanche
- Moonbeam
- Morning Light
- Mortgage Lifter
- Mountain Gold
- Mr. Stripey
- Nature’s Riddle
- Northern Lights
- Nugget
- Oaxacan Jewel
- Old German
- Old Ivory Egg
- Old Yellow Candystripe
- Orange Jazz
- Orange Russian 117
- Patty’s Yellow Striped Beefsteak
- Peppermint
- Pilcer Vesy
- Pineapple
- Pineapple Pig
- Pink Bumble Bee
- Pink Tiger
- Pixie Stripe
- Plum Lemon
- Poma Amoris Minora Lutea
- Pork Chop
- Rambling Gold Stripe
- Red Lightning
- Red Zebra
- Roman Candle
- Sean’s Yellow
- Scarlet Sunrise
- Snow White
- Snowberry
- Solar Flare
- Solar Power
- Solid Gold
- Speckled Roman
- Spike
- Striped Cavern
- Summer Sunrise
- Sunkist
- Sunlemon
- Sunny Blue Ribbon
- Sunny Boy
- Sunny Goliath
- Sunray
- Sunrise Bumble Bee
- Sunset Falls
- Sunshine Heirloom
- Super Snow White
- Sweet Canary
- Sweet Carnernos Pink
- Sweet Gold
- Tasmanian Blushing
- Taxi
- Tiger Like
- Tiger Tom
- Tigerella
- Topaz
- Tye-Dye
- Vintage Wine
- Virginia Sweets
- Wapsipinicon Peach
- Weissbehaarte
- Wherokowhai
- White Beauty
- White Cherry
- White Currant
- White Potato Leaf
- White Queen
- White Wonder
- Wonder Light
- Yellow Belgium
- Yellow Bell
- Yellow Brandywine
- Yellow Cherry
- Yellow Fire
- Yellow Magic
- Yellow Mini
- Yellow Peach
- Yellow Pear
- Yellow Perfection
- Yellow Stuffer
- Yellow Vernissage
Continue scrolling to learn more about these sunny-hued tomatoes!
50 Shades of Yellow Tomatoes?
Not all yellow tomatoes are the same. One cultivar’s shade can be greatly different from another variety.
They may have super deep or vibrant yellow hues on one hand, and very pale yellow—almost white—skin on the other. Some yellow tomatoes are even bi-colored!
Chef’s Choice Striped tomato plants, for instance, has pink-and-yellow striped fruits. There are also Yellow Vernissage tomatoes with alternating streaks of cream and yellow.
Even better, Mingle Mix is an interesting tomato variety that produces bright yellow, orange, red, dark green, and brown or chocolate fruits in a single plant!
When cut, their flesh can also be as bright as orange and green or as light as white. Not all yellow-skinned tomatoes will have yellow flesh.
Peach varieties like the Wapsipinicon Peach have fuzzy tomatoes like a peach too!
Yellow Tomatoes: Available in All Shapes and Sizes!
From grapes, cherries, and pears, to plums, long-and-pointed, flattened globes, globular, and beefsteak—you can choose among a great multitude of yellow tomato shapes!
Depending on the variety you opt to cultivate, you may also be able to harvest yellow tomatoes of vastly different sizes.
White Currant cherry tomatoes, for example, weigh only an average of 0.15 oz (4 g) per fruit.
In contrast, Aunt Gertie’s Gold round tomatoes, Brandymaster Yellow beefsteaks, and Sunny Boy flattened globes can weigh as heavy as 16 oz (450 g) per tomato.
Striped German beefsteak tomato plants can even produce incredibly large 32 oz or 2 lbs (900 g) fruits!
There’s also a wide variety of flavor profiles among yellow tomato varieties. Some are a bit more tangy, others more fruity, and a few are mild-tasting. Yellow tomatoes can be very sweet as well.
How Big Do Yellow Tomatoes Grow?
Most Yellow Tomatoes can grow big, reaching heights of over 8 ft (2.4 m).
Varieties like Amarillo, Big White Pink Stripes, Blondkopfchen, Egg Yolk, Goldie, Italian Ice, Lemon Drop, White Currant, and White Potato Leaf are indeterminate tomatoes that can grow incredibly tall!
Others are very compact and bushy, only growing as big as 2 ft (0.6 m).
Chello, Lime Green Salad, and Taxi are some of the most commonly available yellow tomato varieties that are determinate.
Still, there are semi-indeterminate yellow tomato plants like Honeybee cherries, Sunkist’s flattened globes, and Sweet Canary grapes.
Are There Heirloom Yellow Tomatoes?
Heirloom yellow tomatoes do exist. In fact, some are readily available as seeds and as live seedlings. White Beauty, in particular, has origins that can be traced back to the 1920s.
Such yellow heirloom tomatoes in the US may have been from the Americas or even Russia and Germany.
That said, there are, of course, hydridized yellow tomato varieties as well. Such yellow tomatoes are typically grown to be more disease-resistant that their heirloom counterparts.
Carolina Gold and Mountain Gold tomato plants, to name a few, are resistant to develop not only Verticillium wilt but also Races 1 and 2 of Fusarium wilt.
There’s also Yellow Mini which is highly resistant to the tobacco mosaic virus!
Sources
- “Tomato Varieties” by n/a in Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
