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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: 10 | History events: 0 | Catalog issue offerings: 0
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Claim Types: description_snippet:2, breeder_reference:1, fruit_color:1, fruit_size:1, keeping_quality:1, productivity:1, selection_origin_reference:1, taxon_context:1 | Open evidence summary JSON | Open citation drawer JSON
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Altagold is a small golden crabapple, or applecrab. It is recorded as a cross of baccata and Rosilda and is associated with Wm. Salamandyck of Red Deer, Alberta. It was released by Honeywood Nursery, which places it in the prairie line of hardy apple and crabapple selections rather than among standard dessert apples.[S1]
The fruit is described as about 4 cm across, golden, and midseason in ripening.[S1] The entry is brief, but it presents Altagold as a small fruited crabapple selected more for adaptation and usefulness than for long storage.[S1] Sources also say it does not keep well.[S1]
The tree is noted for bearing at an early age, an important trait in prairie fruit growing where precocity can matter as much as ultimate size or storage life.[S1] The cited entry gives no disease notes or fuller description of the tree's habit.[S1]
Its parentage matters. A baccata cross points to the hardy Siberian crab background behind many northern prairie apples and crabapples, while the Rosilda side suggests breeding toward better fruit quality or color within that hardy framework.[S1] The source does not give a release year or an explicit hardiness rating, but the Alberta origin, Honeywood release, and baccata lineage place Altagold in the Prairie Canada hardy fruit context.[S1]
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This summary currently draws chiefly from Edible Apples in Prairie Canada.
Featured source descriptions
“Released by Honeywood Nursery.”
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“Midseason.”
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“Trees bear at an early age.”
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| Document | Title/URL | Rights | Claims | Relationships | History Events | Pages | Snippets |
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| 3 | Edible Apples in Prairie Canada | unknown | 10 | 0 | 0 | p14 | Listed as a crabapple (crabapple or applecrab, fruit less than 5 cm diameter).; Released by Honeywood Nursery.; Trees bear at an early age.; Does not keep well. |
| Document | Page | Claim Type | Claim | Quote | Match |
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| 3 | p14 | description_snippet | Listed as a crabapple (crabapple or applecrab, fruit less than 5 cm diameter). | Altagold (baccata X Rosilda) Wm. Salamandyck, Red Deer AB CR | page_block:0.90 |
| 3 | p14 | selection_origin_reference | Released by Honeywood Nursery. | Altagold (baccata X Rosilda) Wm. Salamandyck, Red Deer AB CR | page_block:0.90 |
| 3 | p14 | productivity | Trees bear at an early age. | Altagold (baccata X Rosilda) Wm. Salamandyck, Red Deer AB CR | page_block:0.90 |
| 3 | p14 | keeping_quality | Does not keep well. | Altagold (baccata X Rosilda) Wm. Salamandyck, Red Deer AB CR | page_block:0.90 |
| 3 | p14 | description_snippet | Midseason. | Altagold (baccata X Rosilda) Wm. Salamandyck, Red Deer AB CR | page_block:0.90 |
| 3 | p14 | fruit_color | Fruit golden. | Altagold (baccata X Rosilda) Wm. Salamandyck, Red Deer AB CR | page_block:0.90 |
| 3 | p14 | fruit_size | Fruit 4 cm. | Altagold (baccata X Rosilda) Wm. Salamandyck, Red Deer AB CR | page_block:0.90 |
| 3 | p14 | taxon_context | Code CR indicates a crabapple or applecrab with fruit less than 5 cm diameter. | Altagold (baccata X Rosilda) Wm. Salamandyck, Red Deer AB CR | page_block:0.90 |
| 3 | p14 | breeder_reference | Associated with Wm. Salamandyck of Red Deer, Alberta. | Altagold (baccata X Rosilda) Wm. Salamandyck, Red Deer AB CR | page_block:0.90 |
| 3 | p14 | entry_pedigree | Entry identifies Altagold as baccata x Rosilda. | Altagold (baccata X Rosilda) Wm. Salamandyck, Red Deer AB CR | page_block:0.90 |
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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 |
| selection_origin_reference | Released by Honeywood Nursery. | 0.95 |
| productivity | Trees bear at an early age. | 0.94 |
| keeping_quality | Does not keep well. | 0.95 |
| description_snippet | Midseason. | 0.89 |
| fruit_color | Fruit golden. | 0.95 |
| fruit_size | Fruit 4 cm. | 0.96 |
| taxon_context | Code CR indicates a crabapple or applecrab with fruit less than 5 cm diameter. | 0.98 |
| breeder_reference | Associated with Wm. Salamandyck of Red Deer, Alberta. | 0.95 |
| entry_pedigree | Entry identifies Altagold as baccata x Rosilda. | 0.97 |
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