Cultivar 2122: Sansoto

Sansoto was listed in 1921 by the Department of Horticulture at South Dakota State College as one of N. E. Hansen's sand cherry hybrid plums, with Opata, Sapa, Ochesoto, and Wachampa. The source gives no fruit description, parentage, release date, or separate origin details. It places Sansoto within Hansen's plum and sand cherry hybrid work at Brookings, South Dakota. [S1]

The surviving note is horticultural, not descriptive. Hansen advised growing sand cherry hybrids such as Sansoto as bushes, with many stems kept close to the ground. He warned against training them with a high trunk like ordinary plums. [S1]

No hardiness zone is stated for Sansoto. Its cold climate relevance comes from its listing in a South Dakota State College northern fruit catalog focused on hardy fruits, western upland conditions, native plums, sand cherry roots, and Hansen hybrid plums. [S1]

Sansoto belongs in the archive with the Hansen Hybrid Plum group and the broader Prunus breeding program that used sand cherry and native plum material for hardy northern fruit. The page also discusses sand cherry roots as dwarfing, early bearing plum rootstocks. It does not state that Sansoto itself was used as a rootstock or give its direct parentage. [S1]

Summary source basis

• S1: Northern novelties for 1921 : some new fruits, ornamentals, etc.

This summary currently draws chiefly from Some New Fruits, with 3 additional supporting sources linked below.

Featured source descriptions

“Sansoto was one of thirteen seedlings of this pedigree under propagation in the station nursery in the fall of 1907.”
— ^[3]

“The selection has the size of the De Soto and the color of the sand cherry.”
— ^[3]

“Listed among other cherry-plums described in these Bulletins.”
— ^[2]

“The fruit of Sansoto is round.”
— ^[3]

Direct parent cultivars

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Parentage claim text

• Carried forward from adjacent page context as a sand cherry (Prunus besseyi) x De Soto native plum (Prunus americana) seedling.
• Sansoto was one of the seedlings raised by crossing the Dakota sand cherry with the De Soto plum.
• Pedigree: Sand Cherry X De Soto plum pollen.
• Sansoto is presented under Sand Cherry x De Soto Plum Pollen.
• Listed as Sand Cherry x DeSoto plum.
• South Dakota Experiment Station, 1910, Sand cherry x De Soto.

Derived or downstream cultivar links

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Source-story quotations

• My sand cherry hybrids, such as Opata, Sapa, Sansoto, Ochesoto, and Wachampa should be kept in bush form with many stems close to the ground.Northern novelties for 1921 : some new fruits, ornamentals, etc., p3
• My sand cherry hybrids, such as Opata, Sapa, Sansoto, Ochesoto, and Wachampa should be kept in bush form with many stems close to the ground.Northern novelties for 1921 : some new fruits, ornamentals, etc., p3
• My sand cherry hybrids, such as Opata, Sapa, Sansoto, Ochesoto, and Wachampa should be kept in bush form with many stems close to the ground.Northern novelties for 1921 : some new fruits, ornamentals, etc., p3

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