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Usage Facet: class=edible; edible_score=2.0; ornamental_score=0.0; inferred_from_taxon=no
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Claim Types: fruit_size:2, release_year_reference:2, breeder_reference:1, breeding_cross:1, culinary_use:1, description_snippet:1, hardiness_code_expansion:1, source_reference_abbreviation:1, storage_duration:1 | Open evidence summary JSON | Open citation drawer JSON
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Wakaga is an apple selection from wild crabapple breeding recorded by N. E. Hansen in 1938. It came from a Nevis, Minnesota wild crab crossed with Wolf River apple. Hansen listed it under "Taming the American Wild Crabapple," placing it within his effort to bring useful fruit from hardy wild crab stock into larger apple breeding. [S1] A later Prairie Canada reference repeats the parentage as Nevis x Wolf River, credits Hansen, and keeps the 1938 date. [S2]
The fruit was described as about 2 1/2 by 2 1/8 inches, somewhat cylindrical, regular, green with a blush, and with an unctuous surface. The flesh was described as acid and mildly acerb, but it cooked tender. This points more to kitchen use than dessert quality. A Prairie Canada source also notes it for sauce and gives the fruit size as 6 cm, which is broadly consistent with Hansen's small apple or large crabapple dimensions. [S1] [S2]
Season and keeping quality are among the clearest recorded traits of Wakaga. Hansen called it an "all winter keeper," an unusually strong storage note for a 1938 wild crabapple derived selection. [S1] Its long keeping habit, along with its cooking and sauce use, suggests Wakaga was valued less as a sweet fresh apple than as a durable utility fruit from hardy breeding material. [S1] [S2]
Its broader importance lies in its parentage. Wakaga combines Wolf River, a large old apple, with wild crab material from Nevis, Minnesota. This shows Hansen's recurring interest in combining hardiness and adaptation from crabapple stock with the size or utility of standard apples. [S1] Prairie Canadian literature kept it in the edible apple record, but the brief entry does not explain the meaning of its hardiness code "ST." [S2]
Summary source basis
This summary currently draws chiefly from New Hardy Fruits for the Northwest, with 1 additional supporting sources linked below.
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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 entry with reference to Bulletin 339, page 15.”
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“Fruit is somewhat cylindrical, unctuous, and regular.”
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“References CGS (Brooks and Morden) and F&N.”
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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 | 11 | 0 | 0 | p16 | Wakaga: keeper; Wakaga: 2 7/8 inches; {"cultivar_name":"Wakaga","year":1938,"heading_raw":"WAKAGA wild","locations":["Nevis, Minnesota"],"crosses":["Minnesota wild crab x Wolf River apple"],"fruit_size_mentions":["2 7/8 |
| 3 | Edible Apples in Prairie Canada | unknown | 8 | 0 | 0 | p72 | Listed as a standard apple (standard apple, fruit 5 cm diameter or more).; Referenced to CGS (Brooks and Morden) and F&N.; Sauce apple.; Fruit 6 cm. |
| Document | Page | Claim Type | Claim | Quote | Match |
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| 3 | p72 | description_snippet | Listed as a standard apple (standard apple, fruit 5 cm diameter or more). | Wakaga (Nevis X Wolf River) Hansen (1938) ST | page_block:0.90 |
| 3 | p72 | source_reference_abbreviation | Referenced to CGS (Brooks and Morden) and F&N. | Wakaga (Nevis X Wolf River) Hansen (1938) ST | page_block:0.90 |
| 3 | p72 | culinary_use | Sauce apple. | Wakaga (Nevis X Wolf River) Hansen (1938) ST | page_block:0.90 |
| 3 | p72 | fruit_size | Fruit 6 cm. | Wakaga (Nevis X Wolf River) Hansen (1938) ST | page_block:0.90 |
| 3 | p72 | hardiness_code_expansion | ST indicates a standard apple with fruit 5 cm diameter or more. | Wakaga (Nevis X Wolf River) Hansen (1938) ST | page_block:0.90 |
| 3 | p72 | release_year_reference | Entry gives 1938. | Wakaga (Nevis X Wolf River) Hansen (1938) ST | page_block:0.90 |
| 3 | p72 | breeder_reference | Associated with Hansen. | Wakaga (Nevis X Wolf River) Hansen (1938) ST | page_block:0.90 |
| 3 | p72 | entry_pedigree | Pedigree given as Nevis x Wolf River. | Wakaga (Nevis X Wolf River) Hansen (1938) ST | page_block:0.90 |
| 1 | p16 | verbatim_quote | All winter keeper | All winter keeper | normalized_exact:1.00 |
| 1 | p16 | verbatim_quote | Flesh acid, mildly acerb, cooks tender | Flesh acid, mildly acerb, cooks tender | normalized_exact:1.00 |
| 1 | p16 | verbatim_quote | Fruit 2 Yz x 2 Ys inches, somewhat cylindrical, unctuous, regular, green, blushed | Fruit 2 Yz x 2 Ys inches, somewhat cylindrical, unctuous, regular, green, blushed | normalized_exact:1.00 |
| 1 | p16 | verbatim_quote | Nevis, Minnesota wild crab x Wolf River apple | Nevis, Minnesota wild crab x Wolf River apple | normalized_exact:1.00 |
| 1 | p16 | verbatim_quote | WAKAGA wild crabapple-1938 | WAKAGA wild crabapple-1938 | normalized_exact:1.00 |
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| Type | Claim | Confidence |
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| description_snippet | Listed as a standard apple (standard apple, fruit 5 cm diameter or more). | 0.96 |
| source_reference_abbreviation | Referenced to CGS (Brooks and Morden) and F&N. | 0.90 |
| culinary_use | Sauce apple. | 0.95 |
| fruit_size | Fruit 6 cm. | 0.97 |
| hardiness_code_expansion | ST indicates a standard apple with fruit 5 cm diameter or more. | 0.98 |
| release_year_reference | Entry gives 1938. | 0.97 |
| breeder_reference | Associated with Hansen. | 0.98 |
| entry_pedigree | Pedigree given as Nevis x Wolf River. | 0.98 |
| storage_duration | keeper | 0.56 |
| fruit_size | 2 7/8 inches | 0.58 |
| structured_entry_json | {"cultivar_name":"Wakaga","year":1938,"heading_raw":"WAKAGA wild","locations":["Nevis, Minnesota"],"crosses":["Minnesota wild crab x Wolf River apple"],"fruit_size_mentions":["2 7/8 inches"],"color_mentions":["green"],"m | 0.95 |
| verbatim_quote | All winter keeper | 0.97 |
| verbatim_quote | Flesh acid, mildly acerb, cooks tender | 0.97 |
| verbatim_quote | Fruit 2 Yz x 2 Ys inches, somewhat cylindrical, unctuous, regular, green, blushed | 0.97 |
| verbatim_quote | Nevis, Minnesota wild crab x Wolf River apple | 0.97 |
| verbatim_quote | WAKAGA wild crabapple-1938 | 0.97 |
| breeding_cross | Minnesota wild crab x Wolf River apple | 0.90 |
| entry_location | Nevis, Minnesota | 0.90 |
| release_year_reference | 1938 | 0.92 |
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