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Birgit Bonnier

Apple cultivar

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 26, 2024
Entity authorityQ10429915 ↗
Source-derived summary

'Birgit Bonnier' is a modern cultivar of domesticated apple which have some resistance to apple scab and mildew.

'Birgit Bonnier' was developed in Sweden through a cross between the popular 'Cortland' and the 'Lord Lambourne'. The result is an apple of a pleasant flavor. Shape is flat. Background color is whitish green and flushed or with striped with orange red. Fruit is low in juiciness making it more recommended for a dessert apple.

This cultivar was named by the Swedish publisher Albert Bonnier, who named it after his wife Birgit.

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“Birgit Bonnier” enters the record as apple cultivar. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Birgit, Bonnier and Apple can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current 90-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Birgit, Bonnier and Apple.
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“Birgit Bonnier” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Birgit, Bonnier and Apple provides the most credible route into that argument.

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This entry incorporates text from “Birgit Bonnier” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.