Apples · USDA pomological watercolour
Starking Apple
Starking is a heritage apple cultivar that originated in Monroeville, New Jersey, USA (1921. Introduced 1924). It was grown primarily for eating. A red mutation of Delicious. The U.S. Department of Agriculture documented it with 5 watercolour studies (1872–1875), painted by Royal Charles b. Steadman and Mary Daisy Arnold, as official botanical identification records made before colour photography.
| Cultivar | Starking |
|---|---|
| Species | Malus domestica |
| Common fruit | Apple |
| Painted | 1872–1875 |
| Artist(s) | Steadman, Royal Charles b., Arnold, Mary Daisy, Shull, James Marion |
| Specimen origin | New Jersey, Salem, Monroeville; Minnesota, Houston, LaCrescent; Pennsylvania, Bradford, Stevensville; Washington, Yakima, Yakima |
| Collection | USDA Pomological Watercolor Collection |
| Plates | 5 |
All 5 plates
Public domain via the U.S. National Agricultural Library. Plate ids: POM00002093, POM00003200, POM00003201, POM00003202, POM00003203.
