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Stark EarliBlaze
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Discovered in 1949 at New Lennox, Illinois, USA by Worth B. Mooney. Introduced in 1957. Fruits have rather soft, coarse, yellow flesh with a subacid flavour.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
Accession No.
1961 - 037
- Accession name
- Stark Earliblaze
- Flowering time ›››
- 3rd May10% flowering
8th MayFull (80%) flowering
15th May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Early September 1
- Size
- medium 1
- Shape
- Broad globose conical 1
- Height
- 56.14 mm 1
- Width
- 62.66 mm 1
- Ribbing
- weak 1
- Crown
- very weak 1
- Ground Colour
- Green yellow 1
- Over Colour
- Orange 1
- Over Colour Amount
- low-medium 1
- Over Colour Pattern
- striped/mottled 1
- Russet
- low 1
- Coarseness
- coarse 1
- Flesh Colour
- Cream 1
- References:
- 1. NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.
- 2. Smith, M. (1971) National Apple Register
Design: Chris Turnbull, September 2019