Benenden Early
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Raised in about 1945 at Southampton by J.J. Gibbons, and introduced in 1952 by Stuart Low Ltd., Benenden, Kent. Fruits have coarse, soft flesh with a subacid flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Mid August
- Flowering
- 7th May (10%) · 11th May (full) · 18th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Size
- large
- Type
- Dessert
- Shape
- Broad globose conical
- Width
- 80.00 mm
- Height
- 60.00 mm
- Firmness
- soft
- Coarseness
- coarse
- Over colour
- Orange
- Flesh colour
- Yellowish
- Ground colour
- Green yellow
- Over colour amount
- high
- Over colour pattern
- streaked
Source · National Fruit Collection
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