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Usage Facet: class=edible; edible_score=2.0; ornamental_score=0.0; inferred_from_taxon=no
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Sungari is a pear listed in N. E. Hansen's hardy fruit work among pears described as fire blight resistant or immune. In 1940, it was recorded as a cross of Vinnaja Selenaja with Pyrus ovoidea (Simonii). This places it in the South Dakota breeding program that aimed to combine hardy East Asian pear material with the size and quality of cultivated pears.[S1]
Sources describe the fruit as a fall pear, about 2 by 2 1/2 inches, oblong pyriform, and borne on a long stem. The skin is clear yellow with faint russet dots. The flesh is described as tender, pleasant, and very juicy when fully ripe. The fruit was recommended for fresh eating and for cooking.[S1]
The strongest hardiness context comes from the section where Sungari appears. That section says the breeding work focused on hardy, fire blight resistant pears. It reports new seedlings cropping heavily and staying free of fire blight even when the disease was present in the orchard. The same discussion ties the program to East Siberian, North Chinese, and Harbin pear material selected for northern conditions.[S1]
The name appears to refer to the Sungari River in northeast Manchuria.[S1] A separate source also uses the name Sungari for a grape, specifically Vitis amurensis introduced in 1926 from near Harbin on the Sungari River. The pear and grape should be kept separate in the archive.[S2]
Summary source basis
This summary currently draws chiefly from New Hardy Fruits for the Northwest, with 1 additional supporting sources linked below.
Featured source descriptions
“Listed in the table of contents under 'Pears Resistant or Immune to Fire Blight.'”
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“Indexed entry with reference to Bulletin 224, page 41.”
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“Indexed entry with reference to Bulletin 339, page 22.”
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“Flesh tender, pleasant, very juicy when fully ripe.”
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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 | 14 | 0 | 0 | p23 | Sungari: Flesh tender, pleasant, very juicy when fully ripe, excellent for table or for cooking.; Sungari: cooking; Sungari: 2 1/2 inches; Sungari: Clear yellow with faint russet dots |
| Document | Page | Claim Type | Claim | Quote | Match |
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| 1 | p23 | verbatim_quote | (Sungari : a river in northeast Manchuria.) | (Sungari : a river in northeast Manchuria.) | normalized_exact:1.00 |
| 1 | p23 | verbatim_quote | Avaluable fall pear | Avaluable fall pear | normalized_exact:1.00 |
| 1 | p23 | verbatim_quote | Flesh tender, pleasant, very juicy when fully ripe, excellent for table or for cooking | Flesh tender, pleasant, very juicy when fully ripe, excellent for table or for cooking | normalized_exact:1.00 |
| 1 | p23 | verbatim_quote | Clear yellow with faint russet dots | Clear yellow with faint russet dots | normalized_exact:1.00 |
| 1 | p23 | verbatim_quote | Fruit 2 x 2 Yz inches, oblong pyriform, with long stem | Fruit 2 x 2 Yz inches, oblong pyriform, with long stem | normalized_exact:1.00 |
| 1 | p23 | verbatim_quote | Vinnaja Selenaja x Pyrus ovoidea (Simonii) | Vinnaja Selenaja x Pyrus ovoidea (Simonii) | normalized_exact:1.00 |
| 1 | p23 | verbatim_quote | SuNGARI pear-1940 | SuNGARI pear-1940 | normalized_exact:1.00 |
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| Type | Claim | Confidence |
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| description_snippet | Flesh tender, pleasant, very juicy when fully ripe, excellent for table or for cooking. | 0.54 |
| culinary_use | cooking | 0.56 |
| fruit_size | 2 1/2 inches | 0.58 |
| entry_basin_calyx | Clear yellow with faint russet dots | 0.88 |
| structured_entry_json | {"cultivar_name":"Sungari","year":1940,"heading_raw":"SuNGARI","locations":[],"crosses":["Vinnaja Selenaja x Pyrus ovoidea"],"fruit_size_mentions":["2 1/2 inches"],"color_mentions":["yellow"],"morphology_terms":["russet" | 0.95 |
| verbatim_quote | (Sungari : a river in northeast Manchuria.) | 0.97 |
| verbatim_quote | A valuable fall pear | 0.97 |
| verbatim_quote | Flesh tender, pleasant, very juicy when fully ripe, excellent for table or for cooking | 0.97 |
| verbatim_quote | Clear yellow with faint russet dots | 0.97 |
| verbatim_quote | Fruit 2 x 2 Yz inches, oblong pyriform, with long stem | 0.97 |
| verbatim_quote | Vinnaja Selenaja x Pyrus ovoidea (Simonii) | 0.97 |
| verbatim_quote | SuNGARI pear-1940 | 0.97 |
| breeding_cross | Vinnaja Selenaja x Pyrus ovoidea | 0.90 |
| release_year_reference | 1940 | 0.92 |
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