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Wellspur Delicious
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
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.
- Synonyms:
- Wellspur
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Parentage:
- Sport of Delicious
Accession No.
1977 - 164
- Accession name
- Wellspur (LA 73A)
- Flowering time ›››
- 9th May10% flowering
14th MayFull (80%) flowering
22nd May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Mid October 1
- Size
- small 1
- Shape
- Globose conical 1
- Ribbing
- strong 1
- Crown
- strong-very strong 1
- Ground Colour
- Whitish green 1
- Over Colour
- Dark Red 1
- Over Colour Amount
- high-very high 1
- Over Colour Pattern
- washed out/solid flush 1
- Russet
- absent 1
- Flesh Colour
- White 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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