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Apple varieties, United States

Starkspur Supreme

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

A more highly coloured and spur type clone of Delicious. Originated in Henry Stem orchard in Zillah, Washington, USA. Fruits are firm, juicy and very sweet with a highly aromatic flavour.

Family tree

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

Starkspur Supreme United States
- Sport of Delicious United States, 1872
  - Parent Winesap United States, by 1817

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

Sources

Starkspur Supreme (accession 1979 - 046), 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.