Sibley

C. maxima. Banana type. A staff favorite for taste in 2014. Sweet flavor that can stand alone; dry texture; smooth and dense. Acorn-shaped to elongate fruit is gray blue-green with smooth, slightly ribbed skin. Slight blue-green striping throughout fruit. Somewhat uniform in shape and size, very uniform in color. Market mature fruit 11-18" long, 5.5-7" wide, and 5-9 lbs. Flesh is medium orange to dark orange and around 1" thick. Vine; leaves 20-25 cm wide, entire, no silvering. Mid to late-season maturity when grown in 2014 at Heritage Farm. Donated to SSE in 1985 by Carleton Currier (CO CU R) who described this variety in the 1988 SSE Yearbook Exchange as one which had "been in family gardens since my grandparents [sic] moved here in 1892." The variety was originally introduced in 1888 by the Hiram Sibley & Co seed company of Rochester, NY. Many American seed companies in the following decades offered it as either 'Sibley' or the synonym 'Pike's Peak'. SSE Accession # 119911