Kardia Karpos

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Kardia Karpos
Maturity	midseason
Growth habit	indet.
Leaf type	potato
Fruit color	pink
Fruit shape	beefsteak, heart
Fruit size	large
Fruit type	slicer
Variety type
Country

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History

• Originated from Gary from Massachusetts ("Tormato" at Tomatoville), who bought a large 2 lb+ pink beefsteak at an unattended roadside stand in 2003. Gary saved the seeds and grew it out in 2010, observing potato leaf plants with pink fruits which were blunt hearts. He later came back to the stand, only to find an elderly couple who did not speak English. So the origins of this tomato remains a mystery. It may not be stable, as Gary reported that the majority of his 2011 growouts produced pink beefsteaks, and some produced red fruits.
• Heart shapes could also have been environmental, especially when both beefsteaks and blunt hearts appear on the same plant.
• "Kardia Karpos" is not a variety, at least not yet. It is a generic term used to name all the segregations ("heart fruit" as translated into English from Greek).

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Related

• Pink Cadillac (parent)

Picture Gallery

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  Patty Brown, OH. Kardia Karpos - ripe fruit. 2012-08-21.

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  Patty Brown, OH. Kardia Karpos, red - ripe fruit. 2013-07-30.

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Seed Availability

Year	Commercial Vendors	Seed Savers Yearbook (Member listings)	Seeds of Diversity (Member listings)
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2011		0	0
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2008		0	.
2007		0	.