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Apple varieties, United States

Starkrimson Delicious

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

A more highly coloured and taller fruited clone of Starking. Discovered in about 1953 by Roy A. Bisbee, Hood River, Oregon, USA. Introduced in 1956 by Stark Bros. Fruits have firm, very sweet, juicy flesh with a highly aromatic flavour.

Family tree

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

Starkrimson Delicious United States, about 1953
- Sport of Delicious United States, 1872
  - Parent Winesap United States, by 1817

Where Starkrimson Delicious came from. The lines lead to its parents: Delicious (United States).

Sources

Starkrimson Delicious (accession 1979 - 188), 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.