Orange Mango (Apelsinovoe Mango) Tomato Review - Heirloom Tomato Varieties & Reviews

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📌 Quick Summary (TL;DR): Apelsinovoe Mango (Orange Mango)

🌍 Origin: Another stunning creation by Russian breeder Sofia Saakova. It is a cross between Blue Orange (Siniy Apelsin) and the classic Heart of Ashgabat (Serdtse Ashkhabada).
🌿 Plant Habit: Indeterminate (tall), early to mid-season. It features a slender, “wispy” foliage structure typical of many oxhearts. Despite its delicate look, it has a very long fruiting period.
🍅 Fruit Characteristics: Beautiful heart-shaped fruits. The base color is yellow-orange with a pink/red blush radiating through the flesh. Because of its genetics, some fruits may display faint purple (anthocyanin) shoulders. They are very meaty and dense, weighing 200-400 g (7-14 oz), with very few seeds.
👅 Flavor & Texture: Highly praised! Intensely sweet with a soft, “melt-in-your-mouth” texture.
💪 Standout Feature: Unlike many soft oxhearts, these are firm enough to hang on the vine for a while without spoiling and store quite well after picking.

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Irina Volga (Irina) ⭐ Pro Grower (902 posts)

📍 Volgograd, Russia (USDA Zone 6)

Tall (indeterminate), early-season variety. The fruits have a beautiful heart shape, weighing 200-400 g (7-14 oz), yellow-orange with a pink blush. The flesh is bicolor, sweet, tasty, and has very few seeds. In previous generations, it showed a slight antho (anthocyanin) splash, which can still occasionally appear.

Murka (Masha) ⭐ Pro Grower (9,358 posts)

📍 Nizhny Novgorod Region, Russia (USDA Zone 4)

Bred by Sofia Saakova. Here is her official description:

“The parent lines are Blue Orange and Heart of Ashgabat. Indeterminate, tall, early. Fruits are beautiful hearts, 200-400 g (7-14 oz), yellow-orange with a blush. Bicolor flesh, sweet, tasty, few seeds. Showed slight antho in previous generations.”

Mine grew in a side garden bed, and it was one of the very first to set fruit. The bush is slender and wispy. Very beautiful bicolor fruits, sweet, and the flesh just melts in your mouth. I didn’t get any anthocyanin on mine.

Hrizantema57 (Lyudmila) ⭐ Pro Grower (13,445 posts)

📍 Moscow Region, Russia (USDA Zone 4)

Orange Mango. Yet another absolutely stunning variety by Sofia Saakova. My yield turned out to be just average.

Rai na dache (Oksana) ⭐ Vegetable Grower (301 posts)

📍 Western Siberia, Russia (USDA Zone 3)

There is a faint anthocyanin splash present on the shoulders. For me, growing outdoors in open ground, it was a heavy yielder. The taste was a bit variable—the later in the season I picked the fruits, the sweeter and tastier they were.

Orange Mango showing slight purple shoulders

Svetikk (Svetlana) ⭐ Pro Grower (29,360 posts)

📍 South of Moscow Region, Russia (USDA Zone 4)

Indeterminate, an absolutely delicious variety from Sofia Saakova.

Bicolor hearts up to 300-400 g (10.5-14 oz), distinctly sweet. They are quite dense and meaty with a small amount of seeds—they can hang on the vine for a while and store well after picking. Both of my bushes turned out to be heavy yielders and had a long fruiting period; we finished eating the last ones in mid-October. An excellent variety.