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Usage Facet: class=edible; edible_score=1.0; ornamental_score=0.0; inferred_from_taxon=no
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White Crimean is a Russian apple cultivar described in N. E. Hansen's 1902 bulletin, A Study of Northwestern Apples. Hansen lists it as No. 439, with the alternate name White Krim, though OCR in one extraction reads this imperfectly. [S1]
The fruit is medium sized, oblate, regular, and sometimes uneven. The skin is pale yellow, nearly white, with many faint white dots. The artificial key also places it among early summer apples with green, yellow, or white fruit. It describes the fruit as pale yellow to white, medium or larger, oblate, and marked by a wide, heavily russeted cavity. [S1]
The flesh is white, juicy, and acid. Hansen rates the quality as fair and lists its use as mainly culinary. In this source, it is more a kitchen apple than a dessert apple. Its season is early August. [S1]
The entry gives no tree description, breeder, parentage, release date, or hardiness statement. Russian origin is the main geographic clue, but the packet gives no direct evidence for winter survival or zone hardiness. [S1]
Summary source basis
This summary currently draws chiefly from A Study of Northwestern Apples.
Featured source descriptions
“Cavity wide, regular, obtuse, with much stellate russet; stem medium; basin shallow, ribbed; calyx closed, segments long, pointed, divergent.”
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“Class C, Early Summer, flesh subacid or acid; pale yellow to white, never blushed; size medium or above; oblate; cavity wide, much russeted.”
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“Core wide open; cells ovate, entire; tube funnel-shaped; stamens median; seeds about nine, plump.”
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“Flesh white, juicy, acid; quality fair.”
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| Document | Title/URL | Rights | Claims | Relationships | History Events | Pages | Snippets |
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| 14 | A Study of Northwestern Apples | unknown | 9 | 0 | 0 | p115 p137 | Oblate, conic form listed near entry context.; Pale yellow to white, with rare slight blush.; Ripening/season indicator is given as Early August.; Noted as mainly culinary-use fruit. |
| Document | Page | Claim Type | Claim | Quote | Match |
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| 14 | p137 | description_snippet | Oblate, conic form listed near entry context. | Pale yellow to white, rarely a slight blush ... White Crimean | page_block:0.90 |
| 14 | p137 | fruit_color | Pale yellow to white, with rare slight blush. | Pale yellow to white, rarely a slight blush ... White Crimean | page_block:0.90 |
| 14 | p115 | storage_duration | Ripening/season indicator is given as Early August. | White Crimean (No. 439; White K1im )_.:_Origin, Russia-Fruit medium, oblate, regular, sometimes unequal; surface pale yellow, becoming nearly white; dots very obscure, white, suffused, many; ... core wide open ; cells ov | page_block:0.90 |
| 14 | p115 | culinary_use | Noted as mainly culinary-use fruit. | White Crimean (No. 439; White K1im )_.:_Origin, Russia-Fruit medium, oblate, regular, sometimes unequal; surface pale yellow, becoming nearly white; dots very obscure, white, suffused, many; ... core wide open ; cells ov | page_block:0.90 |
| 14 | p115 | flavor_profile | Flesh is white, juicy, and acidic. | White Crimean (No. 439; White K1im )_.:_Origin, Russia-Fruit medium, oblate, regular, sometimes unequal; surface pale yellow, becoming nearly white; dots very obscure, white, suffused, many; ... core wide open ; cells ov | page_block:0.90 |
| 14 | p115 | fruit_color | Fruit surface is pale yellow becoming nearly white with many white, suffused, obscure dots. | White Crimean (No. 439; White K1im )_.:_Origin, Russia-Fruit medium, oblate, regular, sometimes unequal; surface pale yellow, becoming nearly white; dots very obscure, white, suffused, many; ... core wide open ; cells ov | page_block:0.90 |
| 14 | p115 | fruit_size | Fruit is medium, oblate, regular, and sometimes unequal. | White Crimean (No. 439; White K1im )_.:_Origin, Russia-Fruit medium, oblate, regular, sometimes unequal; surface pale yellow, becoming nearly white; dots very obscure, white, suffused, many; ... core wide open ; cells ov | page_block:0.90 |
| 14 | p115 | entry_pedigree | Entry includes catalog identity No. 439 and an alternate designation rendered as White K1im. | White Crimean (No. 439; White K1im )_.:_Origin, Russia-Fruit medium, oblate, regular, sometimes unequal; surface pale yellow, becoming nearly white; dots very obscure, white, suffused, many; ... core wide open ; cells ov | page_block:0.90 |
| 14 | p115 | selection_origin_reference | Origin is recorded as Russia. | White Crimean (No. 439; White K1im )_.:_Origin, Russia-Fruit medium, oblate, regular, sometimes unequal; surface pale yellow, becoming nearly white; dots very obscure, white, suffused, many; ... core wide open ; cells ov | page_block:0.90 |
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| Type | Claim | Confidence |
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| description_snippet | Oblate, conic form listed near entry context. | 0.78 |
| fruit_color | Pale yellow to white, with rare slight blush. | 0.94 |
| storage_duration | Ripening/season indicator is given as Early August. | 0.92 |
| culinary_use | Noted as mainly culinary-use fruit. | 0.96 |
| flavor_profile | Flesh is white, juicy, and acidic. | 0.96 |
| fruit_color | Fruit surface is pale yellow becoming nearly white with many white, suffused, obscure dots. | 0.97 |
| fruit_size | Fruit is medium, oblate, regular, and sometimes unequal. | 0.99 |
| entry_pedigree | Entry includes catalog identity No. 439 and an alternate designation rendered as White K1im. | 0.86 |
| selection_origin_reference | Origin is recorded as Russia. | 0.98 |
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