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The Brandywine tomato plant is an heirloom cultivar of the species, with large potato-leaved foliage and which bears large pink beefsteak-shaped fruit, popularly considered among the best tasting available.Brandywine tomatoes can bear fruit up to 1.5 lbs (0.7 kg), requiring 80 to 100 days to reach maturity, making it among the slowest maturing varieties of common tomato cultivars. Brandywine has been described as having a “great tomatoey flavor”, (others have called it a sandwich sized tomato that is offset by a wonderful acidity), leading to heavy usage despite the original cultivar’s relatively low yield per plant. Its fruit has the beefsteak shape and mixed red and deep purple flesh. Even when fully ripe, the tomato can have green shoulders near the stem.