Tomaten Paprika Chocolate

Tomaten Paprika Chocolate is an Austrian sweet pepper hybrid whose name reflects its strongly tomato-shaped fruit. In circulation it is consistently described as a cross between a brown sweet pepper and a tomato-shaped sweet pepper, and it appears in a dated Deaflora plant list by February 2014, showing it was already established in European seed trade by that point.

The plant is generally described as mid-season, productive, and compact to medium in size, commonly around 60.0 to 70.0 cm tall, though some later listings give a somewhat broader range under different growing conditions. The foliage is green, and the plant is grown for its large, flattened, ribbed, tomato-like fruit, which ripen to a deep chocolate-brown shade. Mature fruit are usually thick-walled and substantial, with published weights ranging from about 70 to 250 g, and some sellers describing fruit around 12.0 cm across. The inner flesh is described as red-brown, juicy, and notably thick, with wall thickness commonly given around 7 to 10 mm.

Its flavour profile is repeatedly described as sweet, juicy, fruity, and aromatic rather than hot, and it is treated as a kitchen pepper built around texture and flesh quality. Listings and grower notes repeatedly place it in fresh eating, salads, stuffing, cooking, freezing, and hearty dishes such as goulash, with the thick flesh and rounded form being central to how the variety is presented. Across seed-trade descriptions, the defining identity stays consistent: a chocolate-coloured, tomato-shaped Austrian annuum with sweet, crisp, thick flesh and negligible heat.