Applevariety
Stark's Earliest
Also known as Scarlet Pimpernel +2
Scarlet Pimpernel · Stark Earliest · Starks Allerfruhester
A dessert apple with whitish-green skin, conical in shape, introduced in 1944; sweet, juicy, crisp and firm. Picked in early August.
Origin · Orofino, Idaho, USA
Released 1944
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Firmness
- firm
- Bite
- crisp
- Juiciness
- juicy
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Skin greasiness WeakSurface colour RedBackground colour Whitish green
- Shape
- Conical
- Size
- small-mediumWidth 51.00 mmHeight 51.00 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges weak
Origin & family
Where Stark's Earliest began
Recorded origin
Orofino, Idaho, USA
United States
- Released
- 1944
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- small-medium
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Conical
- width
- 51.00 mm
- crunch
- crisp
- height
- 51.00 mm
- russet
- very low
- ribbing
- weak
- firmness
- firm
- synonyms
- Scarlet Pimpernel, Stark Earliest, Starks Allerfruhester
- greasiness
- Weak
- over colour
- Red
- ground colour
- Whitish green
Photos
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