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Wachampa is a cherry-plum listed in the University of Minnesota Agricultural Experiment Station's 1951 stone-fruit pollination bulletin. The bulletin gives its parentage as Prunus besseyi x Sultan plum, placing it among sand cherry and plum hybrids rather than standard European or Japanese plums. [S1]
The source does not describe Wachampa's fruit size, color, flesh, flavor, ripening season, or storage quality. Its main documented value here is for pollination. In cherry-plum tests, Wachampa was rated fair as a pollinizer, with medium bloom season and medium pollen abundance. It was tested on five varieties. [S1]
Wachampa was one of 11 commonly grown cherry-plums used by the Minnesota bulletin to show intercompatibility. The bulletin warns that cherry-plums can have specific compatibility needs, so success with one variety does not prove usefulness with another. [S1]
Another table in the same bulletin lists Wachampa among named hybrid and native plum varieties tested and rated as poor pollinizers. This appears to describe a different pollination context than the cherry-plum table, where Wachampa is rated fair. [S1]
No direct hardiness zone is given for Wachampa. The source is a Minnesota Agricultural Experiment Station bulletin from the Fruit Breeding Farm at Excelsior. Its cherry-plum section discusses pollination in northern latitudes, but that context is not a formal zone rating. [S1]
Summary source basis
This summary currently draws chiefly from Some New Fruits, with 3 additional supporting sources linked below.
Featured source descriptions
“Listed among other cherry-plums described in these Bulletins.”
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“Field note states it is much like Sapa in every respect.”
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“Wachampa means “blood cherry.””
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“It proved a very heavy bearer in the past season on three old trees transplanted at one year of age.”
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| Document | Title/URL | Rights | Claims | Relationships | History Events | Pages | Snippets |
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| 112 | Pollination Studies with Stone Fruits | unknown | 6 | 1 | 0 | p4 p7 | Included in the selected 11 commonly grown cherry-plum varieties used to show intercompatibility.; Pollen abundance is medium.; Season of bloom is medium.; Rated fair as a pollinizer in tests on 5 varieties. |
| 104 | Northern novelties for 1921 : some new fruits, ornamentals, etc. | unknown | 4 | 0 | 0 | p3 | Listed as available one-year budded on sand cherry stocks.; The sand cherry hybrids should not be trimmed up with a high stem as some practice with ordinary plums.; Should be kept in bush form with many stems close to th |
| Document | Page | Claim Type | Claim | Quote | Match |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 104 | p3 | rootstock_compatibility | Listed as available one-year budded on sand cherry stocks. | My sand cherry hybrids, such as Opata, Sapa, Sansoto, Ochesoto, and Wachampa should be kept in bush form with many stems close to the ground. | page_block:0.90 |
| 104 | p3 | recommendation_context | The sand cherry hybrids should not be trimmed up with a high stem as some practice with ordinary plums. | My sand cherry hybrids, such as Opata, Sapa, Sansoto, Ochesoto, and Wachampa should be kept in bush form with many stems close to the ground. | page_block:0.90 |
| 104 | p3 | recommendation_context | Should be kept in bush form with many stems close to the ground. | My sand cherry hybrids, such as Opata, Sapa, Sansoto, Ochesoto, and Wachampa should be kept in bush form with many stems close to the ground. | page_block:0.90 |
| 104 | p3 | taxon_context | Wachampa is treated here as one of the sand cherry hybrid plums. | My sand cherry hybrids, such as Opata, Sapa, Sansoto, Ochesoto, and Wachampa should be kept in bush form with many stems close to the ground. | page_block:0.90 |
| 112 | p7 | recommendation_context | Included in the selected 11 commonly grown cherry-plum varieties used to show intercompatibility. | Wachampa 5 F Medium Medium P. Besseyi x Sultan plum | page_block:0.90 |
| 112 | p7 | description_snippet | Pollen abundance is medium. | Wachampa 5 F Medium Medium P. Besseyi x Sultan plum | page_block:0.90 |
| 112 | p7 | description_snippet | Season of bloom is medium. | Wachampa 5 F Medium Medium P. Besseyi x Sultan plum | page_block:0.90 |
| 112 | p7 | description_snippet | Rated fair as a pollinizer in tests on 5 varieties. | Wachampa 5 F Medium Medium P. Besseyi x Sultan plum | page_block:0.90 |
| 112 | p7 | entry_pedigree | Parentage is given as P. besseyi x Sultan plum. | Wachampa 5 F Medium Medium P. Besseyi x Sultan plum | page_block:0.90 |
| 112 | p4 | recommendation_context | Listed among named varieties in Table 5, pollinizers tested and rated as poor. | Wachampa | page_block:0.90 |
| Year | Nursery | Catalog Issue | Relation |
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| Relation | Type | ID | Label |
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| pollinizer_good_for | cultivar | 158 | Sapa |
| Type | Claim | Confidence |
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| rootstock_compatibility | Listed as available one-year budded on sand cherry stocks. | 0.93 |
| recommendation_context | The sand cherry hybrids should not be trimmed up with a high stem as some practice with ordinary plums. | 0.91 |
| recommendation_context | Should be kept in bush form with many stems close to the ground. | 0.96 |
| taxon_context | Wachampa is treated here as one of the sand cherry hybrid plums. | 0.95 |
| recommendation_context | Included in the selected 11 commonly grown cherry-plum varieties used to show intercompatibility. | 0.88 |
| description_snippet | Pollen abundance is medium. | 0.93 |
| description_snippet | Season of bloom is medium. | 0.93 |
| description_snippet | Rated fair as a pollinizer in tests on 5 varieties. | 0.94 |
| entry_pedigree | Parentage is given as P. besseyi x Sultan plum. | 0.96 |
| recommendation_context | Listed among named varieties in Table 5, pollinizers tested and rated as poor. | 0.96 |
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