Applevariety
Blaxtayman
Also known as Black Stayman
Black Stayman
A dessert apple, round conical in shape, whitish-green skin, cream flesh. Picked in mid-October. Introduced in 1930. Sweet and soft.
Origin · Wenatchee, Washington, USA
Released 1930
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Firmness
- soft
- Flavour
- sweet
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour almost entirely flushed carmine and dark red
- Flesh
- cream, tinged green
- Shape
- intermediate, truncate-conic, convex
- Size
- medium
Origin & family
Where Blaxtayman began
Recorded origin
Wenatchee, Washington, USA
United States
- Released
- 1930
Blaxtayman’s family
2 varieties · 1 recorded linkArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Blaxtayman
Wenatchee, Washington, USA, United States
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
Stayman's Winesap → BlaxtaymanParent · Recorded
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- sweet
- synonyms
- Black Stayman
- parentage
- Sport of Stayman's Winesap
- fruit size
- medium
- fruit shape
- intermediate, truncate-conic, convex
- over colour
- almost entirely flushed carmine and dark red
- flesh colour
- cream, tinged green
- flesh texture
- soft
Photos

National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.