Washington Strawberry

Washington Strawberry, painted by Royal Charles Steadman in 1925 for the US Department of Agriculture. Royal Charles Steadman. U.S. Department of Agriculture Pomological Watercolor Collection. Rare and Special Collections, National Agricultural Library, Beltsville, MD 20705. Source; public domain.

Origin: Union Springs, Washington County, New York, United States, by 1849
Parentage: Parents unknown
Uses: Dessert, Cooking
Picked: September, in Brogdale, Kent (the National Fruit Collection)
Skin: Large, truncate conical fruit; ground colour yellow; over-colour brown, striped
Flesh: White; soft, coarse
Flavour: A little sweet and very little flavour
Ploidy: Triploid
Also called: Fraise de Washington; Juniata; Washington; Washington County Seedling; Washington of Maine

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

Raised on the farm of Job Whipple at Union Springs, Washington County, New York, USA. First exhibited in 1849. Fruits have rather soft, coarse-textured, juicy flesh with a little sweet and very little flavour.

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Washington Strawberry (accession 2000 - 097), 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 (mid september); the other names.
Ploidy level (descriptor 115159), study MALUS.PLOIDYDETERMINATION.2008, USDA Agricultural Research Service, GRIN-Global, 2008. Supports: its ploidy, triploid, measured by flow cytometry on accession PI 589095 of the USDA apple collection at Geneva, New York.

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