Applevariety
Stark EarliBlaze
A dessert apple with cream flesh and green-yellow skin, broad round-conical in shape, introduced in 1957; mildly tart and soft. Picked in early September.
Origin · New Lennox, Illinois, USA
Released 1957
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- soft
- Flavour
- subacid
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour flushed and mottled brownish red, deep carmine streaksBackground colour dull yellowish green
- Flesh
- yellow
- Shape
- intermediate to tall, truncate-conic to rectangular, convex, asymmetric
- Size
- mediumFruit width 59-69 mmFruit height 56-62 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges strongly ribbed at eye, slightly on bodyRusset pattern sometimes russet at base, light dots
Origin & family
Where Stark EarliBlaze began
Recorded origin
New Lennox, Illinois, USA
United States
- Released
- 1957
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- subacid
- ribbing
- strongly ribbed at eye, slightly on body
- fruit size
- medium
- fruit shape
- intermediate to tall, truncate-conic to rectangular, convex, asymmetric
- fruit width
- 59-69 mm
- over colour
- flushed and mottled brownish red, deep carmine streaks
- russet type
- sometimes russet at base, light dots
- flesh colour
- yellow
- fruit height
- 56-62 mm
- flesh texture
- rather soft, coarse
- ground colour
- dull yellowish green
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.