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Apple varieties, United States

Starkspur Golden Delicious

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

A bud mutation of Golden Delicious producing spur type tree growth. Discovered by Philip J. Jenkins in Yakima, Washington, USA. Fruits have sweet, crisp, juicy flesh with a good flavour.

Family tree

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

Offspring in the atlas

  • Jester × Worcester Pearmain; United Kingdom, 1966
Golden Delicious Starkspur Golden Delicious
Where Starkspur Golden Delicious came from. The lines lead to its parents: Golden Delicious (United States).

Sources

  1. Starkspur Golden Delicious (accession 1979 - 189), 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 (late october).

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