Beauty of Kent
syn. Beaute de Kent, Bellezza di Kent, Countess of Warwick, Gadd's Seedling, Kent Beauty, Kentish Beauty, Kentish Broading, Kentish Pippin, Kentskaya krasavitsa, Peppin Kent, Pippin Kent, Reinette Grosse d'Angleterre, Schoner aus Kent, Wooling's Favourite, Worling's Favourite
Culinary · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Thought to be of English origin. Introduced in about 1820. Received an Award of Merit from the Royal Horticultural Society in 1901. Fruits are coarse textured, juicy and subacid, with a faint pleasant flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Late September
- Flowering
- 6th May (10%) · 11th May (full) · 18th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Size
- large
- Type
- Culinary
- Shape
- Conical
- Width
- 88.00 mm
- Crunch
- crisp
- Height
- 76.00 mm
- Ribbing
- strong
- Firmness
- firm
- Over colour
- Red
- Flesh colour
- Greenish
- Ground colour
- Yellow
- Over colour pattern
- striped
Source · National Fruit Collection
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