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S. D. Wendel is a crabapple selection from N. E. Hansen's South Dakota hardy fruit work. A 1938 bulletin records it as a cross of Charlamovsky apple with a large wild crabapple from Andrew County, Missouri. The bulletin places it under "Taming the American Wild Crabapple," showing its place in Hansen's work to improve hardy crabapples for the northern plains. [S1]
The fruit is described as about 1 1/4 by 1 5/16 inches, round, and brightly colored, with solid bright red over a yellow ground. The flesh is firm and juicy, with a sharp clear acid but without the harsh astringency found in some wild crabapples. Hansen says it cooks into a red sauce of neutral flavor, which suggests it was valued more for kitchen use than for dessert quality. [S1]
The same source calls it "evidently a long winter keeper," an important trait in a small hardy crabapple. Its strong color, clean acid, red cooking quality, and keeping ability make it a practical fruit for sauce and preserving, as well as a product of Hansen's wild crabapple improvement work. [S1]
Its parentage is especially important. S. D. Wendel combines a named apple parent, Charlamovsky, with an American wild crabapple from Missouri. This shows Hansen's deliberate use of wild native material alongside cultivated apples. The South Dakota prefix and the later bulletin index confirm it as a South Dakota selection preserved in the station's records. [S1]
No tree habit, disease, or explicit hardiness statement appears in the cited source. Its cold climate relevance is inferred from its place in Hansen's Northwest hardy fruit bulletin, not from a direct zone claim. [S1]
Summary source basis
This summary currently draws chiefly from New Hardy Fruits for the Northwest.
Featured source descriptions
“South Dakota selection indicated by the S. D. prefix.”
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“Listed in the table of contents under "TAMING THE AMERICAN WILD CRABAPPLE" with entry page 15.”
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“Indexed to Bulletin 339, page 15.”
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“Flesh is firm, juicy, with sharp clear acid, and not acerb.”
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Zone assertions are structured rows. Hardiness claim text appears in evidence claims and page-linked citations.
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| Document | Title/URL | Rights | Claims | Relationships | History Events | Pages | Snippets |
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| 1 | New Hardy Fruits for the Northwest | unknown | 8 | 0 | 0 | p16 | {"cultivar_name":"S. D. Wendel","year":1938,"heading_raw":"S. D. WENDEL wild","locations":["Andrew County, Missouri"],"crosses":["Charlamovsky apple x a large wild crab from Andrew County"],"fruit_size_mentions":["1 5/16 |
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| 1 | p16 | verbatim_quote | Evidently a long winter keeper | Evidently a long winter keeper | normalized_exact:1.00 |
| 1 | p16 | verbatim_quote | Fruit 1 � x 1 5/16 inches deep; a brilliant solid bright red all over yellow ground; flesh firm, juicy, sharp clear acid, not acerb, cooks into red sauce of neutral flavor | Fruit 1 � x 1 5/16 inches deep; a brilliant solid bright red all over yellow ground; flesh firm, juicy, sharp clear acid, not acerb, cooks into red sauce of neutral flavor | normalized_exact:1.00 |
| 1 | p16 | verbatim_quote | Charlamovsky apple x a large wild crab from Andrew County, Missouri | Charlamovsky apple x a large wild crab from Andrew County, Missouri | normalized_exact:1.00 |
| 1 | p16 | verbatim_quote | WENDEL wild crabapple-1938 | WENDEL wild crabapple-1938 | normalized_exact:1.00 |
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| structured_entry_json | {"cultivar_name":"S. D. Wendel","year":1938,"heading_raw":"S. D. WENDEL wild","locations":["Andrew County, Missouri"],"crosses":["Charlamovsky apple x a large wild crab from Andrew County"],"fruit_size_mentions":["1 5/16 | 0.95 |
| verbatim_quote | Evidently a long winter keeper | 0.97 |
| verbatim_quote | Fruit 1 � x 1 5/16 inches deep; a brilliant solid bright red all over yellow ground; flesh firm, juicy, sharp clear acid, not acerb, cooks into red sauce of neutral flavor | 0.97 |
| verbatim_quote | Charlamovsky apple x a large wild crab from Andrew County, Missouri | 0.97 |
| verbatim_quote | WENDEL wild crabapple-1938 | 0.97 |
| breeding_cross | Charlamovsky apple x a large wild crab from Andrew County | 0.90 |
| entry_location | Andrew County, Missouri | 0.90 |
| release_year_reference | 1938 | 0.92 |
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