Reisentraube, a German heirloom variety, claims to be a cherry tomato. The German-English dictionary translates ‘reisen’ as travel and ‘traube’ as a cluster of grapes… a travelling cluster of grapes. But in our garden it’s not like a cherry or grape; it’s more like a currant.
The plant is standard tomato size with delicate, lacy foliage…
but the fruit are absurdly small.
I pulled this onion for scale: it’s a medium-sized onion, and you can see that these Reisentraube tomatoes are less than 1/3 of an inch across. If I put them in a salad, they’d drop to the bottom like BBs. They’d make a decorative topping on a quiche, or on little tarts.
Maybe the Reisentraube grows differently somewhere else, but here it’s a very silly tomato.
I kind of like how tiny they are - a serious one-biter! Are they sweet and juicy? Very pretty.