Stearns
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Originated with Stearns of North Syracuse, New York, USA. Distributed by Van Dusen of Geneva, New York. Recorded in 1900. Fruits have crisp, tender, creamy white flesh with a sweet, subacid flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Mid October
- Flowering
- 9th May (10%) · 14th May (full) · 21st May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Flavour
- sweet, subacid
- Ribbing
- broad ribs at eye and on body
- Fruit size
- large
- Fruit shape
- flat to intermediate, conic to rectangular
- Fruit width
- 84-101 mm
- Over colour
- flushed pinkish orange, carmine streaks and stripes
- Russet type
- russet dots and tracings, russet on base
- Flesh colour
- creamy white
- Fruit height
- 64-86 mm
- Skin texture
- slightly tacky
- Flesh texture
- crisp, tender
- Ground colour
- pale greenish yellow
NFC characterisation
- Size
- large-very large
- Type
- Dessert
- Crown
- medium-strong
- Shape
- Globose
- Width
- 96.10 mm
- Crunch
- crisp
- Height
- 78.48 mm
- Russet
- low
- Ribbing
- weak-medium
- Coarseness
- fine
- Greasiness
- Medium
- Over colour
- Orange
- Flesh colour
- Cream
- Ground colour
- Whitish yellow
- Over colour amount
- medium
- Over colour pattern
- striped/mottled
Source · National Fruit Collection
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