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Claim Types: description_snippet:4, fruit_size:4, breeding_cross:3, culinary_use:2, fruit_color:2, productivity:2, release_year_reference:2, breeder_reference:1, flavor_profile:1, keeping_quality:1, selection_origin_reference:1 | Open evidence summary JSON | Open citation drawer JSON
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Sapinia is a hardy crabapple or apple-crab selection introduced by N. E. Hansen in 1920. Sources describe it as a Winesap seedling from a Winesap top grafted onto Virginia crab. Prairie Canada notes add that Virginia was thought to be the pollen parent.[S1][S2][S3] Hansen also presented it as an early example of a different breeding direction: a hybrid apple in which the cultivated apple, rather than Siberian crab, was the female parent.[S1][S3]
The fruit is described as dull red, or thinly washed with dull red, about 4.5 cm to nearly 2 inches across, with a subacid flavor.[S1][S2] It is a late fall apple-crab and was noted as a keeper.[S1][S2] Hansen said the name "Sapinia" was formed from Winesap and Virginia crab, preserving the cross story in the cultivar name.[S1][S3]
Sapinia matters mainly as hardy breeding material rather than as a widely known dessert apple. Hansen reported it as hardy and productive at the experiment station at Morden, Manitoba, placing it directly in prairie cold climate testing.[S1] Later Prairie Canada notes still listed it in cultivar lists and Rosthern testing records, though the name appears once there as "Sapina."[S2] The surviving record is thin, but it points to Sapinia as one of Hansen's early hardy apple-crab selections, linking American apple quality with crab derived toughness for the northern plains.[S1][S2][S3]
Summary source basis
This summary currently draws chiefly from New Hardy Fruits for the Northwest, with 2 additional supporting sources linked below.
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“Listed in the table of contents under "IMPROVING THE SIBERIAN CRABAPPLE" with entry page 9.”
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“The name is said to be made up from the two names Winesap and Virginia crab.”
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“Index entry listed on page 15.”
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“It is explicitly described as hardy at Morden, Manitoba.”
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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 | 27 | 0 | 0 | p10 | S. D. Ben: Basin is flat, mi�utely wrinkled; S. D. Ben: striped and mi x ed over yellow ground with white bloom; S. D. Ben: 1938; S. D. Ben: Flesh white, very firm, juicy, a pleasant, lively subacid; cooks tender into sa |
| 3 | Edible Apples in Prairie Canada | unknown | 9 | 0 | 0 | p63 | Listed as a crabapple (crabapple or applecrab, fruit less than 5 cm diameter).; Rosthern test listed it as Sapina.; Pollen parent thought to be Virginia.; Keeper. |
| Document | Page | Claim Type | Claim | Quote | Match |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | p63 | description_snippet | Listed as a crabapple (crabapple or applecrab, fruit less than 5 cm diameter). | Sapinia (Winesap sdlg) Hansen (1920) CR | page_block:0.90 |
| 3 | p63 | description_snippet | Rosthern test listed it as Sapina. | Sapinia (Winesap sdlg) Hansen (1920) CR | page_block:0.90 |
| 3 | p63 | entry_pedigree | Pollen parent thought to be Virginia. | Sapinia (Winesap sdlg) Hansen (1920) CR | page_block:0.90 |
| 3 | p63 | keeping_quality | Keeper. | Sapinia (Winesap sdlg) Hansen (1920) CR | page_block:0.90 |
| 3 | p63 | fruit_color | Fruit dull red. | Sapinia (Winesap sdlg) Hansen (1920) CR | page_block:0.90 |
| 3 | p63 | fruit_size | Fruit 4.5 cm. | Sapinia (Winesap sdlg) Hansen (1920) CR | page_block:0.90 |
| 3 | p63 | fruit_size | Crabapple or applecrab (CR), meaning fruit less than 5 cm diameter. | Sapinia (Winesap sdlg) Hansen (1920) CR | page_block:0.90 |
| 3 | p63 | breeder_reference | Associated with Hansen (1920). | Sapinia (Winesap sdlg) Hansen (1920) CR | page_block:0.90 |
| 3 | p63 | entry_pedigree | Described as a Winesap seedling. | Sapinia (Winesap sdlg) Hansen (1920) CR | page_block:0.90 |
| 1 | p10 | verbatim_quote | Sapinia is hardy and productive at the Experiment Station at Morden, Manitoba | Sapinia is hardy and productive at the Experiment Station at Morden, Manitoba | normalized_exact:1.00 |
| 1 | p10 | verbatim_quote | Season late fall | Season late fall | normalized_exact:1.00 |
| 1 | p10 | verbatim_quote | Flavor subacid | Flavor subacid | normalized_exact:1.00 |
| 1 | p10 | verbatim_quote | Fruit thinly washed with dull red, almost two inches in diameter | Fruit thinly washed with dull red, almost two inches in diameter | normalized_exact:1.00 |
| 1 | p10 | verbatim_quote | One of the forerunners of a new race of hybrid apples in which the cultivated apple instead of the Siberian crab is the female parent | One of the forerunners of a new race of hybrid apples in which the cultivated apple instead of the Siberian crab is the female parent | normalized_exact:1.00 |
| 1 | p10 | verbatim_quote | The name is made up from these two names | The name is made up from these two names | normalized_exact:1.00 |
| 1 | p10 | verbatim_quote | This is a seedling of Winesap apple topgrafted on Virginia crab | This is a seedling of Winesap apple topgrafted on Virginia crab | normalized_exact:1.00 |
| 1 | p10 | verbatim_quote | SAPINIA crabapple-1920 | SAPINIA crabapple-1920 | normalized_exact:1.00 |
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| Type | Claim | Confidence |
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| description_snippet | Listed as a crabapple (crabapple or applecrab, fruit less than 5 cm diameter). | 0.96 |
| description_snippet | Rosthern test listed it as Sapina. | 0.73 |
| entry_pedigree | Pollen parent thought to be Virginia. | 0.87 |
| keeping_quality | Keeper. | 0.95 |
| fruit_color | Fruit dull red. | 0.94 |
| fruit_size | Fruit 4.5 cm. | 0.95 |
| fruit_size | Crabapple or applecrab (CR), meaning fruit less than 5 cm diameter. | 0.98 |
| breeder_reference | Associated with Hansen (1920). | 0.96 |
| entry_pedigree | Described as a Winesap seedling. | 0.97 |
| entry_basin_calyx | S. D. Ben: Basin is flat, mi�utely wrinkled | 0.88 |
| breeding_cross | S. D. Ben: striped and mi x ed over yellow ground with white bloom | 0.90 |
| release_year_reference | S. D. Ben: 1938 | 0.92 |
| description_snippet | S. D. Ben: Flesh white, very firm, juicy, a pleasant, lively subacid; cooks tender into sauce of excellent quality. | 0.54 |
| culinary_use | S. D. Ben: sauce is yellow; the slices retain their shape but are tender | 0.56 |
| culinary_use | S. D. Ben: sauce of excellent quality | 0.56 |
| productivity | S. D. Ben: annual bearer | 0.56 |
| fruit_size | S. D. Ben: 2 inches | 0.58 |
| fruit_color | S. D. Ben: white | 0.55 |
| breeding_cross | S. D. Ben: Jonathan apple x Tony crab | 0.90 |
| description_snippet | Sapinia is hardy and productive at the Experiment Station at Morden, Manitoba | 0.54 |
| productivity | productive at the Experiment Station at Morden, Manitoba | 0.56 |
| flavor_profile | Flavor subacid | 0.57 |
| fruit_size | 2 inches | 0.58 |
| selection_origin_reference | Virginia crab | 0.57 |
| structured_entry_json | {"cultivar_name":"Sapinia","year":1920,"heading_raw":"SAPINIA","locations":["Morden, Manitoba"],"crosses":["Sapinia is hardy and productive at the E x periment Station at Morden"],"fruit_size_mentions":["2 inches"],"colo | 0.95 |
| verbatim_quote | Sapinia is hardy and productive at the Experiment Station at Morden, Manitoba | 0.97 |
| verbatim_quote | Season late fall | 0.97 |
| verbatim_quote | Flavor subacid | 0.97 |
| verbatim_quote | Fruit thinly washed with dull red, almost two inches in diameter | 0.97 |
| verbatim_quote | One of the forerunners of a new race of hybrid apples in which the cultivated apple instead of the Siberian crab is the female parent | 0.97 |
| verbatim_quote | The name is made up from these two names | 0.97 |
| verbatim_quote | This is a seedling of Winesap apple topgrafted on Virginia crab | 0.97 |
| verbatim_quote | SAPINIA crabapple-1920 | 0.97 |
| breeding_cross | Sapinia is hardy and productive at the E x periment Station at Morden | 0.90 |
| entry_location | Morden, Manitoba | 0.90 |
| release_year_reference | 1920 | 0.92 |
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