Eustis
syn. Ben, Ben Apple
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Originated in the late 1600s with Benjamin Smith at Wakefield, Massachusetts, USA. Fruits have firm, crisp flesh with a subacid flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Late September
- Flowering
- 2nd May (10%) · 7th May (full) · 14th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Size
- large
- Type
- Dessert
- Shape
- Oblong
- Firmness
- firm
- Over colour
- Red
- Ground colour
- Yellow
- Over colour pattern
- striped
NFC characterisation
- Size
- large
- Type
- Dessert
- Crown
- weak
- Shape
- Globose conical
- Width
- 73.40 mm
- Crunch
- crisp
- Height
- 69.36 mm
- Russet
- low-medium
- Ribbing
- weak-medium
- Over colour
- Orange
- Flesh colour
- Yellowish
- Ground colour
- Green yellow
- Over colour amount
- low-medium
- Over colour pattern
- striped/mottled
Source · National Fruit Collection
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