Ben's Red
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Raised by Benjamin Roberts at Trannack, Cornwall, England in about 1830. Received an Award of Merit from the Royal Horticultural Society in 1899. Fruits have firm, dry, somewhat coarse textured flesh with a sweet, pleasant flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Early September
- Flowering
- 1st May (10%) · 6th May (full) · 13th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Size
- medium-large
- Type
- Dessert
- Shape
- Flat
- Width
- 72.50 mm
- Crunch
- crisp
- Height
- 52.50 mm
- Russet
- very low
- Ribbing
- weak
- Firmness
- firm
- Coarseness
- fine
- Over colour
- Dark red
- Flesh colour
- Yellowish
- Over colour amount
- high-very high
- Over colour pattern
- striped
Source · National Fruit Collection
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