Pink sport of ‘wonderful’

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@JoshHolbrook traded these with me back in January of 2018. Unfortunately I do not have photos of the flowers. The arils are bright white/yellow with hard seeds. The flavor was a bit mild and slightly sour, but I blame much of that to growing in a pot and being a young tree. Height is about 4’. It produced several fruits but I was letting this last one go fully ripe.

[greenfig]

Interesting! Thanks for sharing.

When people say “sport”, does it mean “a seedling of” or a “different than the mother plant” branch that was separated and became a new plant? Thanks

[Dig]

The later. It is some sort of phenotypical mutation.

[greenfig]

Got it, thanks!

[Dig]

I noticed the skin starting to split and thought it was time to pick. 1/4 of the arils were spoiled looking under where a small crack on the skin existed.

The arils are hard. This fruit was much sweeter and more complex then the other fruit I tried from this same tree. I did not notice much of a sour cranberry flavor that I tend to taste when eating red varieties. I did notice some pink staining on some of the pith. The arils looked uniform in color (aside from the spoiled section). The skin was fairly thin.

[JoshHolbrook]

Nice!


Yes, this variety, Shien’s Pink, came from a Wonderful rootstock and is much more cold hardy than Wonderful. My guess is that it was a seedling that was used for rootstock for some reason.

How’s Shien’s white working for you? Anything yet?


JDH