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Starking
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
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.
- Synonyms:
- Delicios dublu rosu, Double Red Delicious, Prevoshodnoe dvoinoe, Red Delicious, Starking Delicious, Starking Duble Red Delicious
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Parentage:
- Sport of Delicious
- Mother to:
- Cacanska Pozna
- Father to:
- Mandan
- Jupiter
- Hazen
- Shape
- Ellipsoid 2
- Size
- medium-large 2
- Height
- 67.00mm 2
- Width
- 69.50mm 2
- Ribbing
- strong 2
- Ground Colour
- Yellow 2
- Over Colour
- Dark Red 2
- Over Colour (Pattern)
- striped 2
- Russet
- very low 2
- Coarseness
- fine 2
- Flesh Colour
- Yellowish 2
Accession No.
1951 - 034
- Accession name
- Starking
- Flowering time ›››
- 7th May10% flowering
11th MayFull (80%) flowering
19th May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Mid October 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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