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Apple varieties, United States

Dark Red Staymared

The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it¹:

Triploid. A more highly coloured sport of Stayman’s Winesap. It originated with B.C. Moomaw Jr., in Barber County, Virginia, USA. It was introduced in 1927. Fruits are juicy with a light aromatic flavour.

Family tree

Parents, grandparents and great-grandparents, as the entries in the atlas record them.

Dark Red Staymared United States, by 1927
- Sport of Stayman United States, 1866
  - Seed parent Winesap United States, by 1817

Sources

Dark Red Staymared (accession 1950 - 141), National Fruit Collection, Brogdale, Kent (Defra). Supports: the description quoted; the parentage; the use; the fruit's size, shape and colours and the flesh, from the collection's characterisation; the picking time at Brogdale (mid october); the other names.