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Originally Posted by Jazdoma
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I think partial answers.And I think partial b'c it depends on who registered the varieties with that organization.
Serdste Buivola is originally from the CIS as Andrey in Belarus has said, and Bawole Cerce is the same variety as expressed in Polish/
Cuor di Bui has always been known as a red heart from Italy going way way back. But the same red heart is also known as Cuore de Toro in Spanish, but there are also pink variants of the latter. And that's understandable since a single mutation of the epidermis color can change the color of the fruit; a clear epidermis means a pink fruit and a change to a yellow epidermis means a red fruit. I have both pink and red variants of several different varieties but try to distribute seeds only for the color I know the variety originally appeared as.
So if a variety is a dark pink sometimes it looks red and that's why I peel off a small piece of the epidermis and check the color of it. It helps to have a known red and a known pink to check at the same time to be sure.
Someone asked about the difference between the words oxheart and bulls heart above.
There is no real difference as I see it. Both adjectives refer to a variety that's heart shaped, If you were to look at the listings in the SSE YEarbook your see many heart shaped varieties listed from many areas of Europe and the US, some are pink, some are red and the shapes of them can be different.
Meaning, a variety such as Wes has a very blunt heart shape as does Serdste Buivola/ Bawole Cerce as opposed to something like German Red Strawberry that has a beautiful tapering heart shape.
I've loved every single heart shaped variety I've grown and I've grown many of them. Production may not be as much as with non-heart varieties but they're meaty and have great taste.
About names. Riesentraube is a wonderful small red with a nipple at the end of each fruit. Most folks think it's German in origin b'c the name is in the German language, but the variety is known in many countries and in one, I don't remember the country off hand, nor do I remember the spelling in that country, is known as Goat's T$t. But we have Riesentraube b'c it was from the German Seed bank at Gatersleben/
A last comment. I was surprised to see that both links above referred to tomatoes as Lycopersicon lycopersicon when the genus name for tomatoes was changed several years ago back to Solanum and the species name is not always uniform since it can be S. Lycopersicon, S. lycopersicum( mainly in Europe) and S. esculentum.