- Heirloom
- Oxheart
- 85 (estimated) days to maturity (from transplant)
- Indeterminate
- Orange
Orange Strawberry
Heirloom oxheart from USA, 1995. Large orange oxheart: dense, nearly seedless and very sweet. Ready in about 85 days from transplant.
Single source · Updated Sep 9, 2026 · Values marked like this (estimated) are estimates.
At a glance
- Fruit type
- Oxheart 10–16 oz (280–450 g) · Heart-shaped (estimated)
- Leaf type
- Regular leaf
- Days to harvest
- 85 days (estimated) from transplant · Mid-late
- Plant height
- 6–8 ft (180–240 cm) (estimated) Tall
- Spacing
- 24 × 35 in (60 × 90 cm) (estimated)
- Sunlight
- Full sun
- Position
- Handles open positions
- Growing sites
- Greenhouse · Polytunnel · Open ground
- Container growing
- Not suited to pots
- Difficulty
- Difficult (estimated) 5/5
- Skin
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- Orange
- Interior
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- Orange
Plant size and habit
Tall · Indeterminate
6–8 ft (180–240 cm) (estimated) · Regular leaf
Orange Strawberry is an indeterminate plant that keeps growing and setting fruit until frost; it needs a stake, cage, or trellis for the whole season. Expect a plant of 6–8 ft (180–240 cm).
Flavor
“Large orange oxheart: dense, nearly seedless and very sweet.”
Growing calendar
85 (estimated) days from transplant Mid-late
Timing shown for temperate climates; sow indoors 6–8 (estimated) weeks before your last frost date. Look up your last frost date by ZIP code →
Disease resistance
No documented disease resistances — protect this variety with good airflow and crop rotation.
Uses & tags
- Fresh & salads
- Slicing
- Sauce & paste
- Novelty color
- High flavor
- Rare collector
Origin
Orange Strawberry turned up as a stray seed in a packet of Pineapple, found by Marjorie Morris of Indiana, who named it for the fruit's shape and colour and sent it to Carolyn Male; Male listed it in the Seed Savers Exchange Yearbook in 1995. It is a large orange oxheart with the dense, nearly seedless flesh typical of the type and, by growers' accounts on Tatiana's TOMATOBase, a very sweet, rich taste; like most oxhearts it sets sparsely, trading yield for fruit size.
Sources
Where to buy seeds
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Orange Strawberry tomato sliced in the kitchen
Questions
How do you grow a Orange Strawberry plant?
A Orange Strawberry plant grows 6–8 ft (180–240 cm) tall (estimated). Space plants 24 in (60 cm) apart in rows 35 in (90 cm) apart (estimated). Start seed indoors 6–8 weeks before your last frost (estimated); it germinates in 7–14 days (estimated). It needs full sun.
How long does Orange Strawberry take to mature?
Orange Strawberry is ready in about 85 days from transplant.
Does Orange Strawberry need staking?
Orange Strawberry is an indeterminate plant that keeps growing and setting fruit until frost; it needs a stake, cage, or trellis for the whole season. Expect a plant of 6–8 ft (180–240 cm).
Can Orange Strawberry be grown in a container?
Orange Strawberry is better suited to open ground or a greenhouse bed than a container.
Is Orange Strawberry resistant to disease?
No disease resistance is documented for Orange Strawberry.
