Applevariety
Starr
A dessert apple with cream flesh and whitish-green skin, flat-round in shape; mildly tart, aromatic and crisp. Picked in mid-September.
Origin · Woodbury, New Jersey, USA
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- subacid
- Scent
- aromatic
- Bite
- crisp
- Flavour
- subacid, aromatic
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour sometimes faintly flushedBackground colour yellowish green
- Flesh
- tinged yellow
- Shape
- flat to intermediate, rectangular, convex
- Size
- large
- Appearance
- Surface ridges not ribbed (usually)Russet pattern many dots
Origin & family
Where Starr began
Recorded origin
Woodbury, New Jersey, USA
United States
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- subacid, aromatic
- ribbing
- not ribbed (usually)
- fruit size
- large
- fruit shape
- flat to intermediate, rectangular, convex
- over colour
- sometimes faintly flushed
- russet type
- many dots
- flesh colour
- tinged yellow
- flesh texture
- moderately fine, crisp, very tender
- ground colour
- yellowish green
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.