Red Benoni
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
A more highly coloured clone of Benoni. Received by the National Fruit Trials in 1969 from the Netherlands. Fruits have tender, juicy flesh with a sweet and pleasant, moderately aromatic flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Early September
- Flowering
- 5th May (10%) · 10th May (full) · 17th May (petal fall)
NFC characterisation
- Size
- small
- Type
- Dessert
- Crown
- absent
- Shape
- Globose conical
- Crunch
- crisp
- Russet
- low
- Ribbing
- weak
- Firmness
- soft
- Juiciness
- juicy
- Coarseness
- coarse
- Over colour
- Red
- Flesh colour
- Yellowish
- Ground colour
- Whitish yellow
- Over colour amount
- high
- Over colour pattern
- striped/solid flush
Source · National Fruit Collection
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