Stark's Earliest
syn. Scarlet Pimpernel, Stark Earliest, Starks Allerfruhester
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 2 accessions
Discovered by Douglas Bonner at Orofino, Idaho, USA in 1938. Introduced in 1944. Fruits have crisp, fine-textured, white, fairly juicy flesh with a little sweet and fair flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
Accession 1951-033 · Stark's Earliest
- Picking time
- early august
- Flowering
- 26th April (10%) · 1st May (full) · 9th May (petal fall)
No descriptor data recorded for this accession.
Accession 1979-186 · Stark's Earliest (LA 68A)
- Picking time
- Early August
- Flowering
- 27th April (10%) · 2nd May (full) · 10th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Size
- small-medium
- Type
- Dessert
- Shape
- Conical
- Width
- 51.00 mm
- Crunch
- crisp
- Height
- 51.00 mm
- Russet
- very low
- Ribbing
- weak
- Firmness
- firm
- Greasiness
- Weak
- Over colour
- Red
- Ground colour
- Whitish green
Source · National Fruit Collection
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