A new variety of apple in Washington state has a new name.
Rays of sunshine on these new, Washington-state-grown Sunflare variety of apples help give them their beautiful pink hue and delicious crunchy-sweet taste. After getting 15,000 entries in a naming contest, Washington State University agricultural researchers have decided to call it the “Sunflare.”
He says the name was inspired by the apple’s bright colors and last spring’s Northern Lights solar storms that were visible in western Washington for the first time in years. WSU Wenatchee Tree Fruit Research and Extension Center Professor Kate Evans announced the new name at the Northwest Horticulture Expo in Yakima last week.
Researchers at WSU first developed the apple in 1998 when they hand-pollinated a Honeycrisp flower with pollen from a Pink Lady tree at the university’s Columbia View Research Orchard.“We do what the bees do,” Barritt told the WSU Insider. “Sunflare resulted from pollination. It’s not engineered or modified in any way.”They search for apple genetics that provide a great taste, but also are capable of being stored for long periods.
Utility crews worked to fix power outages that impacted tens of thousands of customers in Western Washington over the weekend.Three of five people – most of them teenagers – arrested for allegedly trying to break into a Fall City gun store are now being linked to a string of robberies in South King County.Police in Gig Harbor are warning elderly women to be on the lookout for purse snatchers after three women were attacked in grocery store parking lots this week.
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