Bull's Heart

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Bull's Heart
Maturity	midseason
Growth habit	indet.
Leaf type	regular
Fruit color	pink
Fruit shape	heart
Fruit size	large
Fruit type	slicer

Contents 1 B.C KO T 2 IL LO N 3 TX GU R 4 FRAN SC J 5 Seed Availability

B.C KO T

80 days, indet., pink heart shaped fruit, 8-10 oz, produced well even in the cool and wet summer of 2005 in PNW, very good flavor, excellent yields.

Original Seed Source:

Betsy Knutson, Idaho 05

Year: 2005

Location: Zone 7b, PNW, Anmore, BC, Canada (760 ft above sea level)

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IL LO N

90 days, indet., regular foliage, 12 oz to 2 lb pink, heart-shaped fruit, few seeds, good taste and yield.

Source 

SSE 1995

Location: Oblong, Illinois

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TX GU R

85 days, a.k.a. Cuore Di Toro, indet., regular leaf, heart shaped fruit up to 2 lbs, few seeds, very versatile.

Source 

CV Harvest Moon

Location: Pasadena, Texas

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FRAN SC J

Indet., pink heart fruit, very sweet and delicious flavour. Large fruit, 10-15 oz, with green shoulders.

Source 

 ?

Year: 2008

Location: Nancy, France

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History

• There are a lot of varieties called 'Bull's Heart' in various languages - some of them may be the same tomato, but some may be different even if they share the same name.
• Some of these tomatoes are listed below:
  • Bychye Serdtse (sometimes spelled as Bych'ye Serdtse, the name means 'Bull's Heart' in Russian)
  • Bychye Serdtse Rozovoe (the name means 'Bull's Heart Pink' in Russian)
  • Bychye Serdtse Oranzhevoe (the name means 'Bull's Heart Orange' in Russian)
  • Coeur De Boeuf Orange
  • Volovo Srce or Volovsko Srce (Serbian)
  • Cuore Di Toro
  • Cuor Di Bue
  • Coeur De Boeuf
  • Bivolsko Sertse (Bulgarian)

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Seed Availability

Year	Commercial Vendors (Catalog)	Seed Savers Yearbook (listings)
2010	Tatiana's TOMATObase Seeds Tomato Growers Supply
2009	Tatiana's TOMATObase Seeds - out of stock Tomato Growers Supply Tomatofest	7
2008	Tomato Growers Supply Tomatofest	9
2007	Tomato Growers Supply	7

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