Herefordshire Beefing
Culinary apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Raised in Herefordshire, England. It was known in the late 1700s. Fruits have firm, fine-textured flesh with a moderately acid flavour.
- Synonyms:
- Hereford Beaufin, Hereford Beefing, Herefordshire, Herefordshire Beaufin
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Material held in Tidnor Wood National Collection® of Malus (Cider making)
- Material held in the Marcher Apple Network collections (Paramor)
- Material held in the Marcher Apple Network collections (Donnington)
- Shape
- Flat 2
- Size
- medium 2
- Height
- 47.00mm 2
- Width
- 62.50mm 2
- Ribbing
- weak 2
- Ground Colour
- Green yellow 2
- Over Colour
- Red 2
- Over Colour (Amount)
- high-very high 2
- Russet
- very low 2
- Crunch
- crisp 2
- Flesh Colour
- Greenish 2
Accession No.
2000 - 046
- Accession name
- Herefordshire Beefing
- Flowering time ›››
- 11th May10% flowering
17th MayFull (80%) flowering 25th May90% petal fall
- Picking time
- Early October 1


- References:
- 1. NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.
- 2. Smith, M. (1971) National Apple Register
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