📌 Quick Summary (TL;DR): Coeur de Boeuf Jerusalem
- 🌍 Origin: A rare and highly prized heirloom oxheart variety. While it carries a French name (translating to “Jerusalem Oxheart”), this specific heavy-yielding strain has been heavily preserved, circulated, and perfected by Eastern European and Russian tomato collectors.
- 🌿 Plant Habit: Indeterminate (tall). The bush is slender with classic oxheart “wispy” foliage (sparse leaves), but it is strong and highly productive.
- 🍅 Fruit Characteristics: Beautiful pink to dark-pink/crimson heart-shaped fruits, sometimes slightly ribbed. They are large, typically weighing 400–450 g (14–16 oz / 1 lb). The flesh is incredibly dense, solid, and almost entirely seedless.
- 👅 Flavor: Outstanding, rich flavor heavily dominated by sweetness. Very meaty.
- ⏳ Grower Notes: Features a long fruiting period and stores surprisingly well for an oxheart. A permanent favorite (“a keeper”) for many growers.
Coeur de Boeuf Jerusalem
Indeterminate, highly productive. The fruits are dense, very tasty, meaty, with a small amount of seeds. Pink oxhearts up to 400g (14 oz).
On 10/14/2022 at 07:18, Svetikk said:
pink oxhearts
Could you please tell me your seed source? Mine also grew pink, but according to the description, they should be red-crimson, and in photos, they usually look closer to red.
On 10/23/2022 at 22:12, nierika said:
Could you please tell me your seed source? Mine also grew pink, but according to the description, they should be red-crimson, and in photos, they usually look closer to red.
@Tatunya shared her extra seedlings with me in the spring, so we’ll have to interrogate her about the seed source! 😄
On 10/23/2022 at 22:20, Svetikk said:
@Tatunya shared her extra seedlings with me in the spring, so we’ll have to interrogate her about the seed source! 😄
Now I’m going to pass the buck to CUCSA! 😉
Jerusalem Oxheart
I grew it in 2020. The bush is slender but not weak. It has wispy, sparse foliage. The fruits are large. The taste has a very nice sweetness to it.
On 10/23/2022 at 23:40, fifaira said:
I grew it in 2020. The bush is slender but not weak. It has wispy, sparse foliage. The fruits are large. The taste has a very nice sweetness to it.
What color was yours? Mine is pink, it just looks red in my photo because of the camera flash.
On 10/24/2022 at 05:35, Svetikk said:
What color was yours? Mine is pink, it just looks red in my photo because of the camera flash.
Good morning everyone!
The fruits are heart-shaped, ribbed, pink-red, weighing up to 450 g (1 lb). Inside, it’s solid, dense crimson meat, almost completely seedless. The taste is rich, heavily dominated by sweetness.
I could only find photos of them while they were still green. I got the seeds from O. Dektyareva.
Well, judging by the descriptions and photos from collectors, they are definitely closer to red. What shape were the trusses? Mine grew in clusters, like a bunch of grapes on a single string. And they were pure pink, no red in them at all (it’s a pity I didn’t take a photo). I’m pretty sure I grew an off-type (a seed mix-up).
I barely managed to find a photo, but couldn’t find one of a fully ripe fruit…
Coeur de Boeuf Jerusalem
I am growing this for the third time now, an incredibly delicious variety! Highly productive, meaty, sweet, almost seedless, with a long fruiting period, and it stores well. The color is actually dark pink, my camera just distorts the color.
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