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Stark's Earliest
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
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.
- Synonyms:
- Scarlet Pimpernel, Stark Earliest, Starks Allerfruhester
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Shape
- Conical 2
- Size
- small-medium 2
- Height
- 51.00mm 2
- Width
- 51.00mm 2
- Ribbing
- weak 2
- Ground Colour
- Whitish green 2
- Over Colour
- Red 2
- Russet
- very low 2
- Greasiness
- Weak 2
- Crunch
- crisp 2
Accession No.
1951 - 033
- Accession name
- Stark's Earliest
- Flowering time ›››
- 26th April10% flowering
1st MayFull (80%) flowering
9th May90% petal fall - Picking time
- early august 1
- References:
- 1. NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.
- 2. Smith, M. (1971) National Apple Register
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Design: Chris Turnbull, September 2019