Applevariety
Splendour
Also known as Starksplendor
Starksplendor
A dessert apple with yellowish flesh and whitish-yellow skin, oblong in shape, introduced in 1967; sweet, mildly tart, firm and rich. Picked in mid-October.
Origin · Napier, New Zealand
Released 1967
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- firm
- Flavour
- rich
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Skin greasiness WeakSurface colour OrangeBackground colour Whitish yellowSurface colour pattern streaked
- Flesh
- Yellowish
- Shape
- Oblong
- Size
- medium-largeWidth 68.00 mmHeight 59.50 mm
Origin & family
Where Splendour began
Recorded origin
Napier
New Zealand
- Released
- 1967
Splendour’s family
4 varieties · 3 recorded linksArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Splendour
Napier, New Zealand
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- medium-large
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Oblong
- width
- 68.00 mm
- height
- 59.50 mm
- russet
- low
- ribbing
- medium
- firmness
- firm
- synonyms
- Starksplendor
- greasiness
- Weak
- over colour
- Orange
- flesh colour
- Yellowish
- ground colour
- Whitish yellow
- over colour pattern
- streaked
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.