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Hawkeye
type: Dessert
summary: Though better known as Red Delicious, this is the apple that started as an unwanted seedling found growing in an Iowa (U.S.A.) orchard, has under the guidance of Stark Brothers Fruit Company, defined the tastes of consumers across the United States and perhaps even the world. It reigned and perhaps still does as the most widely grown, best known and most widely consumed dessert variety through the better part of the 1900s. Please see Red Delicious .
identification: The Hawkeye was described as a large, round, unusually conic apple with five well-defined bumps around the blossom end. Smooth skin with a gold yellow base colour covered with red patches and striping. (Its look-alike mutation, the Stark Delicious , is much less conic and shows less of the yellow base colour.)
characteristics: The original Hawkeye was described as having cream-coloured flesh; fine-grained, crisp juicy and sweet. Generally considered superior in flavour to the Red Delicious and its offspring.
uses: Best eaten fresh.
origins: Please see Red Delicious .
cultivation: Upright spreading, moderately vigorous spur bearer. Crops heavily and benefits from fruit trimming.
cold storage: Keeps four months in storage
vulnerabilities: Resistant to fire blight.
notes: There are currently more than 300 mutations and seedlings stemming from this apple but it still stands out as the best in flavour, aroma and texture.
pollination peak: 1
ploidism: Diploid. Self-sterile.
harvest period: 4
hardiness: 4
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