Wellspur Delicious
syn. Wellspur
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
A sport of Starking having a more solid red flush. Discovered in 1952 by Lester Green and Clifford Nelson in the Azwell Orchard of the Wells and Wade Fruit Company, Wenatchee, Washington, USA. Introduced in 1958. Fruits have very firm, very sweet, juicy flesh with a highly aromatic flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Mid October
- Flowering
- 9th May (10%) · 14th May (full) · 22nd May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Tree
- spur type
- Over colour
- solid red
NFC characterisation
- Size
- small
- Type
- Dessert
- Crown
- strong-very strong
- Shape
- Globose conical
- Russet
- absent
- Ribbing
- strong
- Firmness
- soft-medium
- Over colour
- Dark Red
- Flesh colour
- White
- Ground colour
- Whitish green
- Over colour amount
- high-very high
- Over colour pattern
- washed out/solid flush
Source · National Fruit Collection
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