Chenango Strawberry

Chenango Strawberry, painted by Amanda Almira Newton in 1920 for the US Department of Agriculture. Amanda Almira Newton. U.S. Department of Agriculture Pomological Watercolor Collection. Rare and Special Collections, National Agricultural Library, Beltsville, MD 20705. Source; public domain.

Origin: United States, by about 1850
Parentage: Parents unknown
Uses: Dessert
Picked: September, in Brogdale, Kent (the National Fruit Collection)
Skin: ground colour yellowish white; over-colour often almost entirely flushed and splashed red
Flesh: White
Flavour: Subacid and aromatic
Ploidy: Diploid
Also called: Buckley; Chenago; Chenango; Chennango Strawberry; Fraise de Chenango; Frank; Jackson; Jackson Apple; Jackson's Apple; Sherwood's Favorite; Sherwood's Favourite; Smyrna; Strawberry

The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it¹:

Originated either in Lebanon, Madison County, New York or brought into Chenango County from Connecticut. It has been known since about 1850. Fruits have tender, fairly firm flesh with a subacid and aromatic flavour.

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Chenango Strawberry (accession 1952 - 115), National Fruit Collection, Brogdale, Kent (Defra). Supports: the description quoted; the use; the fruit's size, shape and colours and the flesh, from the collection's characterisation; the picking time at Brogdale (early september); the other names.
Using whole-genome SNP data to reconstruct a large multi-generation pedigree in apple germplasm, Hélène Muranty and others, BMC Plant Biology 20:2, 2020. Supports: its ploidy, diploid (supplementary table S1).

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