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Apple varieties, United States

Wellspur Delicious

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

A sport of Starking having a more solid red flush. Discovered in 1952 by Lester Green and Clifford Nelson in the Azwell Orchard of the Wells and Wade Fruit Company, Wenatchee, Washington, USA. Introduced in 1958. Fruits have very 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.

Wellspur Delicious United States, 1952
- Sport of Delicious United States, 1872
  - Parent Winesap United States, by 1817

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

Sources

Wellspur Delicious (accession 1977 - 164), 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.