Lisbon, June 12, 2025 (Lusa) - Authorities announced that Portugal has 236 varieties of tomatoes, such as Benfica and Celestial, among the more than 1,000 agricultural and horticultural species registered this year.
In the 2025 National Catalogue of Varieties (agricultural and horticultural species), Portugal has more than 1,000 names.
Tomatoes are the most numerous (236), with varieties such as Benfica, Celestial, Mama Rosa, Yellow River and Santorino.
Also noteworthy are sunflowers (111) and corn (110), including conservation varieties.
These are followed, in smaller numbers, by melons (52), watermelons (49), peppers (47), annual ryegrass (41), sorghum (40) and onions (31).
There are more than 10 designations of courgette (19), beans (16), alfalfa (15), musk pumpkin (14), perennial ryegrass (13), potato (12), chickpeas (12) and pumpkin (11).
With fewer than 10 and up to five names are common vetch (nine), tall fescue (nine), cereals (seven), turnip (seven), aubergine (seven), forage pea (eight), purple vetch (eight), soft wheat (seven), oats (six), vetch (six), cucumber (six), Portuguese cabbage (six), subterranean clover (six), durum wheat (five), white clover (five), Persian clover (five) and chickpea (five), cabbage (five).
Below these are, for example, coriander (four), Sudan grass (four), serradella (four), vesicular clover (four), carrapiço (four), bristly oats or black oats (three), hybrid ryegrass (three), bersim (three), bisserula (three), hybrids that breeders produce by crossing a species of the genus Triticum with one of the genus Secale (three), serradela brava (three), balança clover (three), red clover (three), broccoli (three) and black-eyed peas (three).
The registry includes two names: red vetch, gero, panasco, white lupin, tremocilha, isthmocarpo clover, pink clover, squarrose clover, hybrid pumpkin, porqueira pumpkin, carrot, savoy cabbage, pea and bean - conservation variety.
This year’s catalogue also includes a large series of species with a single name, such as Green Champ spring onion, Doce Maria turnip, Quartett spinach and Algarve broad beans.
The production, certification and marketing of the vast majority of seeds of regulated agricultural and horticultural species requires them to be listed in the catalogues of agricultural and horticultural species.
The national catalogue includes only those varieties that successfully pass official tests for distinctness, uniformity and stability, and, in the case of agricultural species, for agronomic value and use.
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