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Ann Trio is a Trio crabapple, a three species apple from N. E. Hansen's hardy fruit program, recorded in 1938.[S1] Hansen's Trio group was meant to combine traits from North American wild crabapple, cultivated apple, and Siberian crab, especially winter keeping, larger fruit, and hardiness.[S1] Sources give its parentage as Toriy crab x Mercer crab, though a later prairie reference prints the first parent as Tony, likely a spelling or transcription difference.[S1] [S2]
The fruit is small, about 1 1/2 by 1 1/4 inches in the original bulletin and about 3 cm in the later prairie listing.[S1] [S2] Hansen described it as very showy, with bright solid red over an orange yellow ground and a white bloom.[S1] The flesh is yellow with a pleasant acid flavor.[S1] It is a crabapple, not a dessert apple, and the available descriptions focus more on appearance and keeping than on fresh eating quality.[S1]
Ann Trio is notable for hanging on the tree very late into October and needing to be hand picked.[S1] The bulletin also gives its season as all winter, which suggests unusual persistence or keeping ability for a small hardy crabapple.[S1] That fits the Trio breeding goal of extending storage and usefulness in northern conditions.[S1]
The tree is described as wide spreading and productive, and the later prairie reference also calls it spreading and productive.[S1] [S2] A prairie hardiness code of CR appears in the later catalog style listing, but the packet does not define that code, so the strongest direct context is its inclusion in Hansen's northern hardy breeding work.[S2] [S1]
Ann Trio is part of Hansen's broader effort to build hardy apples from wide species crosses rather than from standard orchard stock alone.[S1] Its value in the archive is not just as a named crabapple, but as one of the Trio selections showing how early breeders pursued color, winter persistence, and cold climate adaptation in the same fruit.[S1]
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 'International or Three-Species Apples.'”
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“Fruit hangs on the tree very late into October and has to be hand-picked.”
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“Reference points to Bulletin 339, page 9.”
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“Avery showy fruit.”
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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 | 16 | 0 | 0 | p21 | Ann Trio: Tree wide spreading, productive.; Ann Trio: productive; Ann Trio: 1 1/2 inches; Ann Trio: spreading |
| 3 | Edible Apples in Prairie Canada | unknown | 9 | 0 | 0 | p15 | Listed as a crabapple (crabapple or applecrab, fruit less than 5 cm diameter).; CR = crabapple or applecrab was printed for this entry, though the stated fruit size is 5 cm and may sit at the page's classification bounda |
| Document | Page | Claim Type | Claim | Quote | Match |
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| 3 | p15 | description_snippet | Listed as a crabapple (crabapple or applecrab, fruit less than 5 cm diameter). | Ann Trio (Tony X Mercer) Hansen (1938) Fruit 5cm, red. Tree productive and spreading. | page_block:0.90 |
| 3 | p15 | hardiness_code_expansion | CR = crabapple or applecrab was printed for this entry, though the stated fruit size is 5 cm and may sit at the page's classification boundary. | Ann Trio (Tony X Mercer) Hansen (1938) Fruit 5cm, red. Tree productive and spreading. | page_block:0.90 |
| 3 | p15 | source_reference_abbreviation | Ref F&N. | Ann Trio (Tony X Mercer) Hansen (1938) Fruit 5cm, red. Tree productive and spreading. | page_block:0.90 |
| 3 | p15 | growth_habit | Tree spreading. | Ann Trio (Tony X Mercer) Hansen (1938) Fruit 5cm, red. Tree productive and spreading. | page_block:0.90 |
| 3 | p15 | productivity | Tree productive. | Ann Trio (Tony X Mercer) Hansen (1938) Fruit 5cm, red. Tree productive and spreading. | page_block:0.90 |
| 3 | p15 | fruit_color | Fruit red. | Ann Trio (Tony X Mercer) Hansen (1938) Fruit 5cm, red. Tree productive and spreading. | page_block:0.90 |
| 3 | p15 | fruit_size | Fruit 5 cm. | Ann Trio (Tony X Mercer) Hansen (1938) Fruit 5cm, red. Tree productive and spreading. | page_block:0.90 |
| 3 | p15 | breeder_reference | Associated with Hansen, dated 1938. | Ann Trio (Tony X Mercer) Hansen (1938) Fruit 5cm, red. Tree productive and spreading. | page_block:0.90 |
| 3 | p15 | entry_pedigree | Parentage given as Tony x Mercer. | Ann Trio (Tony X Mercer) Hansen (1938) Fruit 5cm, red. Tree productive and spreading. | page_block:0.90 |
| 1 | p21 | verbatim_quote | Season all winter | Season all winter | normalized_exact:1.00 |
| 1 | p21 | verbatim_quote | Tree wide spreading, productive | Tree wide spreading, productive | normalized_exact:1.00 |
| 1 | p21 | verbatim_quote | Fruit hangs on the tree very late into October and has to be hand-picked | Fruit hangs on the tree very late into October and has to be hand-picked | normalized_exact:1.00 |
| 1 | p21 | verbatim_quote | Avery showy fruit, flesh yellow, pleasant acid | Avery showy fruit, flesh yellow, pleasant acid | normalized_exact:1.00 |
| 1 | p21 | verbatim_quote | Remarkable for the bright solid red over orange yellow ground, with white bloom | Remarkable for the bright solid red over orange yellow ground, with white bloom | normalized_exact:1.00 |
| 1 | p21 | verbatim_quote | Fruit 1 Yz inches x 1 � inches | Fruit 1 Yz inches x 1 � inches | normalized_exact:1.00 |
| 1 | p21 | verbatim_quote | Toriy crab x Mercer crab | Toriy crab x Mercer crab | normalized_exact:1.00 |
| 1 | p21 | verbatim_quote | ANN TRIO crabapple-1938 | ANN TRIO crabapple-1938 | 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 |
| hardiness_code_expansion | CR = crabapple or applecrab was printed for this entry, though the stated fruit size is 5 cm and may sit at the page's classification boundary. | 0.67 |
| source_reference_abbreviation | Ref F&N. | 0.79 |
| growth_habit | Tree spreading. | 0.91 |
| productivity | Tree productive. | 0.92 |
| fruit_color | Fruit red. | 0.93 |
| fruit_size | Fruit 5 cm. | 0.94 |
| breeder_reference | Associated with Hansen, dated 1938. | 0.94 |
| entry_pedigree | Parentage given as Tony x Mercer. | 0.95 |
| description_snippet | Tree wide spreading, productive. | 0.54 |
| productivity | productive | 0.56 |
| fruit_size | 1 1/2 inches | 0.58 |
| growth_habit | spreading | 0.52 |
| fruit_color | yellow | 0.55 |
| structured_entry_json | {"cultivar_name":"Ann Trio","year":1938,"heading_raw":"ANN TRIO","locations":[],"crosses":["Toriy crab x Mercer crab"],"fruit_size_mentions":["1 1/2 inches"],"color_mentions":["solid red","yellow"],"morphology_terms":["r | 0.95 |
| verbatim_quote | Season all winter | 0.97 |
| verbatim_quote | Tree wide spreading, productive | 0.97 |
| verbatim_quote | Fruit hangs on the tree very late into October and has to be hand-picked | 0.97 |
| verbatim_quote | A very showy fruit, flesh yellow, pleasant acid | 0.97 |
| verbatim_quote | Remarkable for the bright solid red over orange yellow ground, with white bloom | 0.97 |
| verbatim_quote | Fruit 1 Yz inches x 1 � inches | 0.97 |
| verbatim_quote | Toriy crab x Mercer crab | 0.97 |
| verbatim_quote | ANN TRIO crabapple-1938 | 0.97 |
| breeding_cross | Toriy crab x Mercer crab | 0.90 |
| release_year_reference | 1938 | 0.92 |
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