Cultivar 474: Freestone Wolf

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Usage Facet: class=edible; edible_score=1.0; ornamental_score=0.0; inferred_from_taxon=no

Relationships: 0 | Linked Entities (visible): 0 | Evidence claims: 6 | History events: 0 | Catalog issue offerings: 0

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Freestone Wolf is a named plum recorded in South Dakota trial notes as productive, firm, freestone, and light red. The note also says it does not crack. It set a good crop and ripened with Stoddard, placing it in the same season as that comparison cultivar in the station's orchard records. [S1]

The surviving description is brief but specific. Fruit size is given as about one and one fourth to one and three eighths inches. It is described as light red, firm, freestone, and resistant to cracking. This combination suggests a plum valued for handling and kitchen convenience as well as appearance. [S1]

The South Dakota bulletin preserves this as an orchard performance note, not a full origin story. It places Freestone Wolf within the station's broader evaluation of named plums under South Dakota conditions, where winter survival, cropping, and fruit quality determined whether a variety was worth keeping or recommending. No breeder, release date, or explicit parentage is given in the cited note. [S1]

Hardiness is not stated directly for Freestone Wolf in this excerpt. Its significance here comes from its inclusion in South Dakota experiment station testing, which places it in a northern Great Plains trial context, but the note does not give a zone rating or a fuller hardiness judgment. [S1]

Summary source basis

This summary currently draws chiefly from Plums in South Dakota.

Featured source descriptions

“Fruit firm and freestone.”
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“Fruit does not crack.”
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“Set good crop.”
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Citation Drawer (Top Supporting Sources)

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17Plums in South Dakotaunknown600p43Fruit does not crack.; Fruit firm and freestone.; Fruit light red.; Fruit size given as one and one-fourth to one and three-eighths inches.

Citation Evidence (Page-Linked Quotes)

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17p43description_snippetFruit does not crack.A. Norby: Freestone Wolf.-"Set good crop; ripens with Stoddard; size one and one-fourth to one and three-eighths inches; light red; firm; freestone; does not crack"page_block:0.90
17p43description_snippetFruit firm and freestone.A. Norby: Freestone Wolf.-"Set good crop; ripens with Stoddard; size one and one-fourth to one and three-eighths inches; light red; firm; freestone; does not crack"page_block:0.90
17p43fruit_colorFruit light red.A. Norby: Freestone Wolf.-"Set good crop; ripens with Stoddard; size one and one-fourth to one and three-eighths inches; light red; firm; freestone; does not crack"page_block:0.90
17p43fruit_sizeFruit size given as one and one-fourth to one and three-eighths inches.A. Norby: Freestone Wolf.-"Set good crop; ripens with Stoddard; size one and one-fourth to one and three-eighths inches; light red; firm; freestone; does not crack"page_block:0.90
17p43release_year_referenceRipens with Stoddard.A. Norby: Freestone Wolf.-"Set good crop; ripens with Stoddard; size one and one-fourth to one and three-eighths inches; light red; firm; freestone; does not crack"page_block:0.90
17p43productivitySet good crop.A. Norby: Freestone Wolf.-"Set good crop; ripens with Stoddard; size one and one-fourth to one and three-eighths inches; light red; firm; freestone; does not crack"page_block:0.90

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description_snippetFruit does not crack.0.95
description_snippetFruit firm and freestone.0.96
fruit_colorFruit light red.0.95
fruit_sizeFruit size given as one and one-fourth to one and three-eighths inches.0.93
release_year_referenceRipens with Stoddard.0.84
productivitySet good crop.0.95

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