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Apple varieties, United States

Stafner Rosen

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

Thought to be of American origin. Described in 1924. Fruits have firm, fine, greenish white flesh with a sweet, subacid, aromatic flavour.

Sources

Stafner Rosen (accession 1947 - 096), National Fruit Collection, Brogdale, Kent (Defra). Supports: the description quoted; 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.