Applevariety
Redgold
Also known as Stark Redgold
Stark Redgold
A dessert apple with yellowish flesh and whitish-yellow skin, ellipsoid in shape, introduced in 1946; sweet and mildly tart. Picked in early October.
Origin · Cashmere, Washington, USA
Released 1946
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- subacid
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Skin greasiness WeakSurface colour PinkBackground colour Whitish yellowSurface colour coverage high
- Flesh
- Yellowish
- Shape
- Ellipsoid
- Size
- mediumWidth 57.50 mmHeight 57.00 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges strong
Origin & family
Where Redgold began
Recorded origin
Cashmere, Washington, USA
United States
- Released
- 1946
Redgold’s family
5 varieties · 4 recorded linksArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Redgold
Cashmere, Washington, USA, United States
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- medium
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Ellipsoid
- width
- 57.50 mm
- height
- 57.00 mm
- russet
- very low
- ribbing
- strong
- synonyms
- Stark Redgold
- parentage
- Golden Delicious x Richared Delicious
- greasiness
- Weak
- over colour
- Pink
- flesh colour
- Yellowish
- ground colour
- Whitish yellow
- over colour amount
- high
Other apple varieties
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.