Winter Banana

Winter Banana, painted by Royal Charles Steadman in 1918 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: Adamsboro, Cross County, Indiana, United States, 1876
Parentage: Parents unknown
Uses: Dessert
Picked: October, in Brogdale, Kent (the National Fruit Collection)
Skin: Medium-large, oblong fruit; ground colour whitish yellow; over-colour pink
Flesh: Medium, medium-coarse
Flavour: Sweet and pleasant aromatic
Ploidy: Diploid
Also called: Banan zimnii; Banana; Banana de Iarna; Banane; Banane d'Hiver; Bananove zimni; Bananovoe; Flory; Teli banan; Zimna bananova; Zimnee bananovoe

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

Raised in 1876 on the farm of David Flory near Adamsboro, Cross County, Indiana, USA. Introduced in 1890. Received an Award of Merit from the Royal Horticultural Society in 1912. Fruits have rather soft, rather coarse-textured,moderately juicy flesh with a sweet and pleasant aromatic flavour.

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Winter Banana (accession 1921 - 094), 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 october); 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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