Taxon ID: 1
Usage Facet: class=edible; edible_score=1.0; ornamental_score=0.0; inferred_from_taxon=no
Relationships: 0 | Linked Entities (visible): 0 | Evidence claims: 4 | History events: 0 | Catalog issue offerings: 0
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Hibernal apple is noted here less for dessert fruit than for its value in severe winter conditions. In South Dakota guidance on top working, it is named as one of the two stocks that gave the best satisfaction, alongside Virginia crab, because of its exceptional winter hardiness and its wide angle branches, which are described as less likely to split. [S1]
The surviving evidence in this packet is narrow and practical. It places Hibernal in orchard management use as a hardy stock for top working, rather than giving a full fruit description, season, or origin story. The same source suggests that branch structure mattered as much as hardiness. Hibernal was recommended in part because its scaffold angles were broad and durable under prairie conditions. [S1]
Hardiness is the clearest supported trait. The source does not give a numbered zone, but it explicitly ties Hibernal to South Dakota fruit growing and calls it exceptionally winter hardy. [S1]
The material here does not provide direct parentage, breeder, release date, fruit quality, or storage details. The taxonomic context places it within Malus, but the packet does not support a fuller lineage narrative. [S1]
Summary source basis
This summary currently draws chiefly from South Dakota Fruit Garden (visual sample pages 9-11).
Featured source descriptions
“due to exceptional winter hardiness”
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“Two varieties has given the best satisfaction when used for stock in top working-the Hibernal apple and the Virginia crab”
— [1]
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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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| narrative_observation | mentioned | South Dakota | 0.76 |
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| Document | Title/URL | Rights | Claims | Relationships | History Events | Pages | Snippets |
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| 2 | South Dakota Fruit Garden (visual sample pages 9-11) | public_domain | 4 | 0 | 0 | p3 | wide-angle branches which do not split.; due to exceptional winter hardiness; Two varieties has given the best satisfaction when used for stock in top working-the Hibernal apple and the Virginia crab; {"claims": [{"claim |
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| 2 | p3 | growth_habit | wide-angle branches which do not split. | Two varieties has given the best satisfaction when used for stock in top working-the Hibernal apple and the Virginia crab, due to exceptional winter hardiness and wide-angle branches which do not split. | visual_page_probe:0.90 |
| 2 | p3 | entry_hardiness_observation | due to exceptional winter hardiness | Two varieties has given the best satisfaction when used for stock in top working-the Hibernal apple and the Virginia crab, due to exceptional winter hardiness and wide-angle branches which do not split. | visual_page_probe:0.90 |
| 2 | p3 | recommendation_context | Two varieties has given the best satisfaction when used for stock in top working-the Hibernal apple and the Virginia crab | Two varieties has given the best satisfaction when used for stock in top working-the Hibernal apple and the Virginia crab, due to exceptional winter hardiness and wide-angle branches which do not split. | visual_page_probe:0.90 |
| 2 | p3 | structured_entry_json | {"claims": [{"claim_text": "Two varieties has given the best satisfaction when used for stock in top working-the Hibernal apple and the Virginia crab", "claim_type": "recommendatio | Two varieties has given the best satisfaction when used for stock in top working-the Hibernal apple and the Virginia crab, due to exceptional winter hardiness and wide-angle branches which do not split. | visual_page_probe:0.90 |
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| Type | Claim | Confidence |
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| growth_habit | wide-angle branches which do not split. | 0.93 |
| entry_hardiness_observation | due to exceptional winter hardiness | 0.93 |
| recommendation_context | Two varieties has given the best satisfaction when used for stock in top working-the Hibernal apple and the Virginia crab | 0.93 |
| structured_entry_json | {"claims": [{"claim_text": "Two varieties has given the best satisfaction when used for stock in top working-the Hibernal apple and the Virginia crab", "claim_type": "recommendation_context"}, {"claim_text": "due to exce | 0.94 |
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