Description
- Harvest: Mid
- Description: Spur bearer, tall ellipsoid shaped fruit
- Skin: Solid crimson all over and can be almost black, especially on young trees. May have a slight stripe
- Flesh: Green-white. One of the most susceptible Delicious strains to russet in some seasons
- Vigour: V2
- Flowering Group: 4
- Pollination: Granny Smith, Jonathan and Bonza
- Taste: Firm, very sweet and juicy flesh with a highly aromatic flavour
- Storage: Keep very well
- Uses: Eating
- Background: A more highly coloured and taller fruited clone of Starking. Discovered in about 1953 by Roy A. Bisbee, Hood River, Oregon, USA. Introduced in 1956 by Stark Brothers. The tree is susceptible to scab and woolly aphid, some resistance to powdery mildew