Taxon ID:
Usage Facet: class=edible; edible_score=1.0; ornamental_score=0.0; inferred_from_taxon=no
Relationships: 0 | Linked Entities (visible): 0 | Evidence claims: 2 | History events: 0 | Catalog issue offerings: 0
Open profile JSON | Open lineage explorer | Open lineage JSON
Evidence Badge: emerging | claims=2 | sources=1 | contradictions=0
Claim Types: entry_location:1, entry_pedigree:1 | Open evidence summary JSON | Open citation drawer JSON
Connected Views: lineage table | lineage graph | history charts | trait matrix | search
Link Filter: showing signal links (candidate hidden); hidden candidate links=0. Show candidate links
Shaffer's Colossal was a raspberry cultivar from New York. In N. E. Hansen's 1909 circular, it appears as the male parent of the seedling raspberry Sunbeam, not as a new introduction. The page describes Sunbeam as a cross of wild red raspberry with Shaffer's Colossal raspberry. [S1]
The packet gives no direct fruit description, plant habit, ripening season, disease notes, or hardiness rating for Shaffer's Colossal itself. Its value here is genealogical. Hansen used it as breeding material in a northern fruit program meant to produce better and hardier fruits for the prairie Northwest. [S1]
The source places Shaffer's Colossal within a broader experimental program that distributed limited plant material for trial and record keeping. The program statement says its plant material came either from the department's own fruit breeding work or from northern regions of Europe and Asia. Shaffer's Colossal, however, is specifically identified as being from New York. [S1]
Summary source basis
This summary currently draws chiefly from Raspberries, Blackberries and Dewberries.
Featured source descriptions
“Sunbeam fruit was said to be on the style of Shaffer but smaller.”
— [2]
Direct parent cultivars
Parentage claim text
Derived or downstream cultivar links
Source-story quotations
Taxonomy context: No family-tree context surfaced yet.
Related cultivars mentioned in source context
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No explicit zone assertion rows yet. | ||||||
No linked media assets.
| Document | Title/URL | Rights | Claims | Relationships | History Events | Pages | Snippets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 135 | Spring 1909 : some new fruits | unknown | 2 | 0 | 0 | p5 | Named as the male parent of Sunbeam Raspberry.; Identified as from New York. |
| Document | Page | Claim Type | Claim | Quote | Match |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 135 | p5 | entry_pedigree | Named as the male parent of Sunbeam Raspberry. | Male parent, Shaffer's Colossal from New York. | page_block:0.90 |
| 135 | p5 | entry_location | Identified as from New York. | Male parent, Shaffer's Colossal from New York. | page_block:0.90 |
| Year | Nursery | Catalog Issue | Relation |
|---|---|---|---|
| No catalog issue offerings linked. | |||
| Relation | Type | ID | Label |
|---|---|---|---|
| No linked entities at this filter level. | |||
| Type | Claim | Confidence |
|---|---|---|
| entry_pedigree | Named as the male parent of Sunbeam Raspberry. | 0.96 |
| entry_location | Identified as from New York. | 0.92 |
| ID | Type | Year | Label |
|---|---|---|---|
| No history events. | |||