If you live in Minnesota - or you love apples - you know what a Honeycrisp is. Developed at the University of Minnesota, the Honeycrisp apple is sweet and firm, just like its name. But what about its heritage? The following was written by Nick Howard, U of M 2017 Ph.D. recipient of the Fran Pomeroy Daniels and Marion Brimhall Daniels Fellowship in Horticulture: "The Honeycrisp's original pedigree record was found to be incorrect in 2004. Its recorded parents just didn't behave like Honeycrisp. I was studying correlations between genetics and traits of interest in apples, especially disorders like scald and soggy breakdown, and I was using pedigree information and genetic markers to see where the traits come from. Through genetic analysis, I found that one of Honeycrisp's parents was Keepsake. And the I found four or five of its siblings. Three of them had complete pedigree records. The other parent turned out to be MN1627, which we know is a cross between Golden Delicious and Duchess of Oldenberg, an old Russian variety. These are well-known cultivars used worldwide. When I found what the other parent was, it was pretty neat. It was like a detective who got to solve this mystery."