Starking

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

Accession No.
1951 - 034     check_circle

Accession name
Starking