Heirloom variety from the hills of eastern Kentucky, featured in the 1994 Seed Savers Yearbook.
Big beefsteak-type orange fruit weighing 300 to 500 grams, more or less flattened and with a well-marked ribbing or even pleating at the top.
Beef meat with a creamy and melting texture.
Sweet and fragrant flavor.
Plant with great development, regular foliage, indeterminate growth.
Excellent productivity from the end of mid-season.
Caracteristics
Caliber | Big to very big |
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Color | Orange |
Form | Beefsteak, Flattened, Ribbed |
Earliness | Late |
Foliage | Régular |
Climate | All |
Growing | Indeterminate |
Height | + or - 2m |
Origin | USA |