Ohio Nonpareil

Ohio Nonpareil, painted by Bertha Heiges in 1897 for the US Department of Agriculture. Bertha Heiges. U.S. Department of Agriculture Pomological Watercolor Collection. Rare and Special Collections, National Agricultural Library, Beltsville, MD 20705. Source; public domain.

Origin: Massillon, Ohio, United States, by 1848
Parentage: Parents unknown
Uses: Dessert, Cooking
Picked: September, in Brogdale, Kent (the National Fruit Collection)
Skin: ground colour pale greenish yellow; over-colour flushed pinkish orange streaked carmine
Flesh: Yellowish
Flavour: Sweet subacid
Ploidy: Diploid
Also called: Bellflower of the West; Cattall Apple; Cattell Apple; Myer's Nonpareil; Myers Nonpareil; Myers' Nonpareil; Non-Pareille de l'Ohio; Nonpareil; Red Bellflower; Rusty Core; Wells

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

Originated in the orchard of Mr Bowman, Massillon, Ohio, USA. It was described in 1848. Fruits have firm, crisp flesh with a sweet subacid flavour.

Where Ohio Nonpareil came from.

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Ohio Nonpareil (accession 1952 - 128), 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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