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Usage Facet: class=edible; edible_score=1.0; ornamental_score=0.0; inferred_from_taxon=no
Relationships: 0 | Linked Entities (visible): 0 | Evidence claims: 3 | History events: 0 | Catalog issue offerings: 0
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Claim Types: description_snippet:2, fruit_color:1 | Open evidence summary JSON | Open citation drawer JSON
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Lead is a named apple cultivar recorded in N. E. Hansen's 1902 bulletin A Study of Northwestern Apples. It appears in a diagnostic list of northwestern apples, not in a narrative cultivar profile. The source places it in the midsummer to early winter section and among green, yellow, or white apples that are not striped. [S1]
The description is brief. One entry keys Lead as an apple with white or whitish flesh. Another describes the flesh as greenish white with green veinings. The same source records a conical tube and marginal stamens. Another degraded line appears to note a closed core. [S1]
The supplied evidence does not preserve parentage, breeder, nursery, release date, origin, fruit size, skin color, flavor, use, storage behavior, tree habit, productivity, disease notes, or a direct hardiness statement. Its cold-climate relevance comes from its inclusion in a South Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station study of northwestern apples, not from a specific zone or winter survival claim. [S1]
Lead should be treated as a historically recorded apple cultivar from a northern prairie apple identification key. The evidence supports its identity as an apple and preserves a few flesh and floral traits. It does not yet support a fuller horticultural profile.
Summary source basis
This summary currently draws chiefly from A Study of Northwestern Apples.
Featured source descriptions
“Listed under Flesh white or whitish, tube funnel-shaped; core closed.”
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“Listed under tube conical; stamens marginal.”
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Taxonomy context: No family-tree context surfaced yet.
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Zone assertions are structured rows. Hardiness claim text appears in evidence claims and page-linked citations.
| Zone Min | Zone Max | Zone Text | Assertion Type | Outcome | Location | Confidence |
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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 | 3 | 0 | 0 | p138 p139 | Lead entry records a conical tube and marginal stamens.; Flesh is noted as greenish white with green veinings.; OCR indicates core is 'dosed'; text likely degraded near this entry. |
| Document | Page | Claim Type | Claim | Quote | Match |
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| 14 | p139 | description_snippet | Lead entry records a conical tube and marginal stamens. | Tube conical, stamens marginal ... Flesh greenish white, green veinings ... Lead | page_block:0.90 |
| 14 | p139 | fruit_color | Flesh is noted as greenish white with green veinings. | Tube conical, stamens marginal ... Flesh greenish white, green veinings ... Lead | page_block:0.90 |
| 14 | p138 | description_snippet | OCR indicates core is 'dosed'; text likely degraded near this entry. | core dosed .. ... . .. .. ...... .. ..... ... . Lead | page_block:0.90 |
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| Type | Claim | Confidence |
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| description_snippet | Lead entry records a conical tube and marginal stamens. | 0.85 |
| fruit_color | Flesh is noted as greenish white with green veinings. | 0.85 |
| description_snippet | OCR indicates core is 'dosed'; text likely degraded near this entry. | 0.48 |
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