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Wato Golden is a golden currant, a yellow fruited selection of Ribes odoratum, recorded in 1939 from native material gathered at Deadwood, South Dakota. It appears in N. E. Hansen's hardy fruit bulletin as one of several named golden currant selections, part of a broader effort to notice and preserve unusual northern fruit forms.[S1]
The bulletin describes Wato Golden as a small, translucent fruit, about 9/16 inch across, light orange yellow in color, with a shining skin and a pleasant mild acid flavor.[S1] This places it among the uncommon yellow fruited forms noted in western South Dakota, in contrast to the more usual black fruited golden currants discussed on the same page.[S1]
The available source adds little about plant habit for Wato Golden itself, but the surrounding text describes golden currant as a vigorous, handsome shrub with abundant yellow flowers in early spring, and fruit of good quality for fresh eating or preserves.[S1] Wato Golden is therefore best understood as a selected native South Dakota form within that species context, notable mainly for its yellow fruit and local origin.[S1]
No direct hardiness statement is given for Wato Golden in the supplied source. Its significance instead comes from where it was found and documented: native material from the Black Hills region of South Dakota, preserved in a bulletin devoted to hardy fruits for the northern Plains and Northwest.[S1]
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This summary currently draws chiefly from New Hardy Fruits for the Northwest.
Featured source descriptions
“Grown from native golden currants gathered at Deadwood, South Dakota.”
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“Indexed entry with reference to Bulletin 339, page 27.”
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“Fruit pleasant, mild, acid.”
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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 | 7 | 0 | 0 | p28 | Wato Golden: 16 inches; {"cultivar_name":"Wato Golden","year":1939,"heading_raw":"WATO golden","locations":["Deadwood, South Dakota"],"crosses":[],"fruit_size_mentions":["9/16 inches"],"color_mentions":["yellow"],"morpho |
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| 1 | p28 | verbatim_quote | Fruit pleasant, mild, acid, 9/16 inches across, light orange yellow, skin transparent, shining | Fruit pleasant, mild, acid, 9/16 inches across, light orange yellow, skin transparent, shining | normalized_exact:1.00 |
| 1 | p28 | verbatim_quote | Grown from native golden currants gathered at Deadwood, South Dakota | Grown from native golden currants gathered at Deadwood, South Dakota | normalized_exact:1.00 |
| 1 | p28 | verbatim_quote | WATO golden currant-1939 | WATO golden currant-1939 | normalized_exact:1.00 |
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| fruit_size | 16 inches | 0.58 |
| structured_entry_json | {"cultivar_name":"Wato Golden","year":1939,"heading_raw":"WATO golden","locations":["Deadwood, South Dakota"],"crosses":[],"fruit_size_mentions":["9/16 inches"],"color_mentions":["yellow"],"morphology_terms":[],"pedigree | 0.95 |
| verbatim_quote | Fruit pleasant, mild, acid, 9/16 inches across, light orange yellow, skin transparent, shining | 0.97 |
| verbatim_quote | Grown from native golden currants gathered at Deadwood, South Dakota | 0.97 |
| verbatim_quote | WATO golden currant-1939 | 0.97 |
| entry_location | Deadwood, South Dakota | 0.90 |
| release_year_reference | 1939 | 0.92 |
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