Tamato Berry

Tamato Berry マトマのみ Matoma Fruit No. 26

Effect Makes a Pokémon more friendly, but lowers Speed effort valueEDPPt Natural Gift Type Unknown Power Unknown Flavor Generation III   SPICY DRY SWEET BITTER SOUR   +1 +1 0 0 -2 Generation IV             20 SPICY       10 DRY       0 SWEET       0 BITTER       0 SOUR       Growth Generation III Planted 0 hours Sprouted 6 hours Taller 12 hours Flowering 18 hours Berries 24 hours Generation IV Planted 0 hours Sprouted 8 hours Taller 16 hours Flowering 24 hours Berries 32 hours Size (in) Size (cm) Firmness 7.9" 20.0 cm Soft Bag description Generation III — Generation IV Unknown Generation V Unknown Generation VI Unknown Generation VII Unknown Generation VIII Unknown Tag description Generation III This berry is lip-bendingly spicy. It takes time to grow. Generation IV This Berry is large and spicy. When eaten during the cold season, it warms the body from inside. Ice Cream Scoop Flavor 1 Flavor 2 Flavor 3 Scoop — — — Stickiness — — — Origin Name Tomato Design Horned melon, Tomato

A Tamato Berry is a type of berry introduced in Generation III.

Locations

Generation III

• Sometimes given from the Berry Master.

Generation IV

• Sometimes given from the Berry Master.

Pokéwalker

• Rarely found in

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after 1000+ steps.

• Always held by level 5 Elekid, rarely found in

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after 5000+ steps.

Growth and Harvest

Generation III

A Tamato Berry will mature from a planted seed to a full-grown, fruit-bearing tree in 24 hours, with 6 hours per stage. A Tamato tree will yield 2-4 berries.

Generation IV

A Tamato Berry will mature from a planted seed to a full-grown, fruit-bearing tree in 32 hours, with 8 hours per stage. A Tamato tree will yield 1-5 berries.

Berry Blending

	Verdanturf	Fallarbor	Slateport	Lilycove
Tamato Berry	Purple	Purple	Purple	Purple

Berry Crushing

At 100% performance, a Tamato Berry will contribute 150 units of powder.

Poffin cooking

Tamato Berries will make a level 9 Spicy-Dry Poffin when cooked alone.

In the anime

Whenever an episode features berries, such as The Lotad Lowdown, or Berry, Berry Interesting, a character may come across this berry and decide to eat it. They instead experience its intense spiciness, and may end up with swollen lips for a while.

Names

Language	Name	Origin
Japanese	マトマのみ (Matoma Nomi)	From トマト Tomato.
English	Tamato Berry	From tomato.
French	Baie Tamato	From tomate.
German	Tamotbeere	From Tomate.
Italian	Baccamodoro	From pomodoro.
Spanish	Baya Tamate	From tomate.
Korean	토망열매 Tomang Yeolmae	From 토마토 Tomato.

Trivia

The Tamato Berry is the only one of the EV-reducing Berries that did not have the same growth time as the rest in Generation III, and the only Berry of its flavor group that does not have the same growth time as the rest in Generation IV.

← Grepa Berry

Berries

Cornn Berry →

This Pokémon article is part of Project BerryDex, a Bulbapedia project that aims to write comprehensive articles on each Berry in the Pokémon series.