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A darker Cosmic Crisp |
The folks at Washington State University looked at it and saw stars: pinpoints in the night sky.
They named the apple "Cosmic Crisp."
However, the blush of the Cosmic Crisps I reviewed in 2019 was not particularly dark.
An amateur explores the pomaceous fruit
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A darker Cosmic Crisp |
The folks at Washington State University looked at it and saw stars: pinpoints in the night sky.
They named the apple "Cosmic Crisp."
However, the blush of the Cosmic Crisps I reviewed in 2019 was not particularly dark.
Now imagine the tree is dying from an incurable disease.
Actually, with some poetic license, that is the case.
More recently, you said it was just a new trademark for Sweet Cheeks. (I reviewed that apple in 2017.)
Thanks for doing my job for me! I've edited the review with the new name and a note.
Sometimes different harvests or handling deliver fruit of varying quality. Several readers liked this apple a lot more than I did.
One of these is Melrose. I discovered this apple's winter virtue a year ago by virtue of poor organization of my apple hoard.
Then, several Melrouge (a sport of Melrose) lurked in the back of my refrigerator. They proved good.
This past fall I made a point of buying some for a midwinter bonus.
The encyclopedic website Pomiferous, cleverly organized and with links to related resources, is a labor of love by two "great friends," one an outdoors writer and the other a web designer.
This ambitious, generous site is a work in progress, rough edges, loose ends, and all.
Consider this the second installment in the ongoing investigation of what to call the set of bumps that sometimes grace the ridge around the calyx end of the apple.
Last month I weighed in with crown, noting that an apple usually begins its life with its calyx pointing up.
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Curation is key. |
Gene sequencing is helping the National Fruit Collection (UK) to prune its orchard and improve its classifications.
I reviewed the NFC's searchable apple database in 2008.
My ratings are qualitative, from one to three stars. These judgments reflect my tastes primarily, though sometimes other considerations come into play.
As for the year itself: no stars at all.
This fun video (4 minutes) was created in 2014 for a biology class at Stanford.
It speaks for itself. Bonus points if you can name the fruit (not an apple, really, and what's with that?) that inspired the soundtrack.