Applevariety
Stearns
A dessert apple with cream flesh and whitish-yellow skin, round in shape; sweet, mildly tart and crisp. Picked in mid-October.
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Origin · North Syracuse, New York, USA
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Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- tender
- Bite
- crisp
- Flavour
- sweet, subacid
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour flushed pinkish orange, carmine streaks and stripesSkin texture slightly tackyBackground colour pale greenish yellow
- Flesh
- creamy white
- Shape
- flat to intermediate, conic to rectangular
- Size
- largeFruit width 84-101 mmFruit height 64-86 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges broad ribs at eye and on bodyRusset pattern russet dots and tracings, russet on base
Origin & family
Where Stearns began
Recorded origin
North Syracuse, New York, USA
United States
Stearns’s family
2 varieties · 1 recorded linkArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Stearns
North Syracuse, New York, USA, United States
Esopus Spitzenburg → StearnsParent · Recorded
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- sweet, subacid
- ribbing
- broad ribs at eye and on body
- parentage
- Esopus Spitzenburg x Unknown
- fruit size
- large
- fruit shape
- flat to intermediate, conic to rectangular
- fruit width
- 84-101 mm
- over colour
- flushed pinkish orange, carmine streaks and stripes
- russet type
- russet dots and tracings, russet on base
- flesh colour
- creamy white
- fruit height
- 64-86 mm
- skin texture
- slightly tacky
- flesh texture
- crisp, tender
- ground colour
- pale greenish yellow