Florence Bennett
Culinary / Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Raised by Mrs Florence Bennett, Crosby Green, West Derby, Liverpool as a result of some apple cores being thrown on a garden rubbish heap. It was received by the National Fruit Trials in 1971. Fruits have fairly firm, juicy flesh with a sweet and lemon flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Early September
- Flowering
- 5th May (10%) · 11th May (full) · 18th May (petal fall)
NFC characterisation
- Size
- large
- Type
- Culinary / Dessert
- Crown
- weak-medium
- Shape
- Globose conical
- Crunch
- crisp
- Russet
- low
- Ribbing
- weak-medium
- Coarseness
- coarse
- Over colour
- n/a
- Flesh colour
- White
- Ground colour
- Whitish yellow
- Over colour amount
- absent
- Over colour pattern
- n/a
Source · National Fruit Collection
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