Blue Anis
AppleBlue Anis
Origin/History
Origin: Russia. The 1914 Budd & Hansen American Horticultural Manual treats Blue Anis as a member of the Anis group, directing readers to the Anis entry for fuller context.
Tree
Not described in source.
Fruit
Size
Small.
Form
Roundish, tapering, angular.
Stem
Short. Hansen (1902) describes it as "touching a long lower part of cavity"; Budd & Hansen (1914) render the same detail as "touching along lower part of cavity."
Cavity
Regular, acute, deep, narrow, with a russet patch.
Calyx
Closed.
Basin
Narrow, abrupt, rather shallow, corrugated and wrinkled.
Skin
Thin, semi-transparent. Ground color pale yellow to yellowish white, splashed with bright crimson on the sunny side. Dots very minute, white, obscure.
Flesh / Flavor
Flesh white, juicy, fine-grained. Flavor pleasant subacid. Quality rated good.
Core / Seeds
Core half open, meeting. Tube conical. Stamens median.
Season
Fall.
Uses
Not described in source.
Subtypes / Variants
Not described in source.
Other
Not described in source.
Book Sources
Described in 2 period pomological works
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— N.E. Hansen, A Study of Northwestern Apples (1902)Blue Anis—Origin, Russia—Fruit small, roundish, tapering, angular; skin thin, semi-transparent; pale yellow to yellowish white, splashed with bright crimson on sunny side; dots very minute, white, obscure; cavity regular, acute, deep, narrow, with russet patch; stem short, touching a long lower part of cavity; basin narrow, abrupt, rather shallow, corrugated and wrinkled; calyx closed; core half open, meeting; tube conical; stamens median; flesh white, juicy, fine grained, pleasant subacid, good. Fall.
— J.L. Budd & N.E. Hansen, American Horticultural Manual, Part II: Systematic Pomology (1914)Blue Anis. — Origin, Russia. (See Anis, p. 37.) Fruit small, roundish, tapering, angular; skin thin, semi-transparent, and pale yellow to yellowish white, splashed with bright crimson on sunny side; dots very minute, white, obscure; cavity regular, acute, deep, narrow, with russet patch; stem short, touching along lower part of cavity; basin narrow, abrupt, rather shallow, corrugated and wrinkled; calyx closed. Core half open, meeting; tube conical; stamens median; flesh white, juicy, fine-grained, pleasant subacid, good. Fall.