Painter Spurred Red

Origin and History

Painter Spurred Red was received by the USDA Agricultural Research Service from the Summerland Research Station in Summerland, British Columbia. It was catalogued in H.H. Fisher's 1963 survey of apple clones in the United States under Station No. AP-H-326.

Tree Characteristics

Painter Spurred Red is a spur-type tree variety.

Fruit

Form and Color

Painter Spurred Red displays fruit striping. The color is reported as comparable to Okanoma, with characteristics similar to the Starking Delicious type.

Other Fruit Characteristics

Not described in source.

Season

Not described in source.

Uses

Not described in source.

Subtypes and Variants

Not described in source.

Other

The variety was distributed to two USDA reporting stations for evaluation: the Agricultural Research Service, Irrigation Experiment Station in Prosser, Washington (station code WaP), and the Agricultural Experiment Station, Department of Pomology in Geneva, New York (station code NyG). No Plant Introduction (PI) number was assigned to this variety.