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Illustration based on known variety traits. Appearance varies by growing conditions.

No. 051 · heirloom

Hillbilly

Hillbilly is an indeterminate heirloom beefsteak with orange-yellow streaked and mottled with red and pink fruit. It ripens in about 85 days.

Typebeefsteak
Habitindeterminate
Days to maturity85
Fruit size16 to 32 oz
Colororange-yellow streaked and mottled with red and pink
Difficultymoderate

Flavor

Described as large, mild, sweet and fruity with low acid and subtle tangy notes. As with every flavor note here, this is the recurring catalog and grower description, not a measured claim.

Origin

A bicolor beefsteak heirloom from the hills of West Virginia, dating to the 1800s.

What it does well

  • Very large, showy bicolor beefsteak fruit weighing one to two pounds
  • Mild, sweet, low-acid flavor

Where it frustrates

  • Heavy fruit needs sturdy staking or caging
  • Long season needed to ripen the large fruit

Like Hillbilly, but...

Sold out, or after a change? The closest alternatives, and how they differ.

Pineapplebut with red marbling rather than solid streaking, both large bicolor beefsteaksGreat Whitebut pale white rather than orange-yellow bicolor

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