Starking

Starking, painted by Royal Charles Steadman in 1925 for the US Department of Agriculture. Royal Charles Steadman. U.S. Department of Agriculture Pomological Watercolor Collection. Rare and Special Collections, National Agricultural Library, Beltsville, MD 20705. Source; public domain.

Origin: Monroeville, New Jersey, United States, 1921
Raised by: Lewis Mood
Parentage: Sport of Delicious A sport of Delicious, as the National Fruit Collection records it
Uses: Dessert
Picked: October, in Brogdale, Kent (the National Fruit Collection)
Skin: Medium-large, ellipsoid fruit; ground colour yellow; over-colour dark red, striped
Flesh: Yellowish; firm, fine
Flavour: Sweet
Also called: Delicios dublu rosu; Double Red Delicious; Prevoshodnoe dvoinoe; Red Delicious; Starking Delicious; Starking Duble Red Delicious

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

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.

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

Starking United States, 1921
- Sport of Delicious United States, 1872
  - Parent Winesap United States, by 1817

Offspring in the atlas

Cacanska Pozna × Jonathan; Serbia, by 1975
Hazen × Duchess of Oldenburg; United States, by 1980
Jupiter × Cox's Orange Pippin; United Kingdom, 1966
Mandan × Duchess of Oldenburg; United States, by 1965

Sources

Starking (accession 1951 - 034), 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.

Family tree

Offspring in the atlas

Sources

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