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Florence Bennett
Culinary / Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
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.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Parentage:
- Bramley's Seedling x Unknown
Accession No.
1972 - 082
- Accession name
- Florence Bennett
- Flowering time ›››
- 5th May10% flowering
11th MayFull (80%) flowering
18th May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Early September 1
- Size
- large 1
- Shape
- Globose conical 1
- Ribbing
- weak-medium 1
- Crown
- weak-medium 1
- Ground Colour
- Whitish yellow 1
- Over Colour
- n/a 1
- Over Colour Amount
- absent 1
- Over Colour Pattern
- n/a 1
- Russet
- low 1
- Crunch
- crisp 1
- Coarseness
- coarse 1
- Flesh Colour
- White 1
- References:
- 1. NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.
- 2. Smith, M. (1971) National Apple Register
Design: Chris Turnbull, September 2019