Starking
syn. Delicios dublu rosu, Double Red Delicious, Prevoshodnoe dvoinoe, Red Delicious, Starking Delicious, Starking Duble Red Delicious
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
A more highly coloured clone of Delicious. Discovered in 1921 by Lewis Mood at Monroeville, New Jersey, USA. Introduced in 1924. Fruits have firm, fine, yellow flesh with a sweet flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Mid October
- Flowering
- 7th May (10%) · 11th May (full) · 19th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Size
- medium-large
- Type
- Dessert
- Shape
- Ellipsoid
- Width
- 69.50 mm
- Height
- 67.00 mm
- Russet
- very low
- Ribbing
- strong
- Firmness
- firm
- Coarseness
- fine
- Over colour
- Dark Red
- Flesh colour
- Yellowish
- Ground colour
- Yellow
- Over colour pattern
- striped
Source · National Fruit Collection
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