(85 days) Open pollinated. Indeterminate. “A knock-out at market last year. Eye-catching with yellow striped scarlet skins. My customers bought them singly for fresh eating and in baskets for cooking into sweet sauces,” relates Elizabeth Bangley of Hawk’s Hill Farm in Georgetown, PA. John Swensen’s psychedelic-looking creation ranked near the top in our 2005 sauce test for its rich tomatoey sweetness and good texture. Roman’s red cylindrical fruits are covered with orange-yellow striations, something like an Amish Paste with stripes from an Orange Banana. The actual parents are Antique Roman and Banana Legs, and the fruits have the distinctive nipple of the latter. Plants bear an early abundance of meaty 4–5 oz fruits. Susceptible to disease in cool wet seasons.
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