Cultivar 104: Pyrus Baccata

Pyrus Baccata is listed here as a source plant in N. E. Hansen's hardy fruit work, not as a described eating cultivar. The bulletin names it as the Siberian crab part of the pedigree of Amsib and says this material was brought from Moscow, Russia, in 1906. [S1]

The surviving evidence in this packet is thin and mostly referential. One page gives only the pedigree note for Amsib, while an index page separately lists Pyrus baccata and points to another bulletin page. [S1] The extracted material here gives no fruit description, season, storage, tree habit, or direct hardiness statement for Pyrus Baccata itself. [S1]

Its importance in the archive is historical and genetic. The bulletin places it in the breeding stream for hardy northern fruit, where Siberian crab blood was used to push cold tolerance, productivity, and adaptation in severe climates. [S1] A lineage link in the packet also shows later breeding use connected with McIntosh Apple, which suggests it was used as a parent in additional crosses rather than as a descriptive synonym or origin label. [S1]

One uncertainty remains. The source uses the name Pyrus baccata while also calling it the Siberian crab parent, and the packet does not resolve that taxonomic inconsistency. [S1]

Summary source basis

• S1: New Hardy Fruits for the Northwest

This summary currently draws chiefly from New Hardy Fruits for the Northwest.

Featured source descriptions

“The Pyrus baccata parent was brought by the writer from Moscow, Russia, in 1906.”
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“Indexed to Bulletin 237, page 17.”
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Direct parent cultivars

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Parentage claim text

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Derived or downstream cultivar links

• Mcintosh Apple (lineage link)

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