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Ben's Red
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Raised by Benjamin Roberts at Trannack, Cornwall, England in about 1830. Received an Award of Merit from the Royal Horticultural Society in 1899. Fruits have firm, dry, somewhat coarse textured flesh with a sweet, pleasant flavour.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Material held in the Marcher Apple Network collections (Tredomen)
- Parentage:
- Devonshire Quarrenden x Farleigh Pippin
- Shape
- Flat 2
- Size
- medium-large 2
- Height
- 52.50mm 2
- Width
- 72.50mm 2
- Ribbing
- weak 2
- Over Colour
- Dark red 2
- Over Colour (Amount)
- high-very high 2
- Over Colour (Pattern)
- striped 2
- Russet
- very low 2
- Crunch
- crisp 2
- Coarseness
- fine 2
- Flesh Colour
- Yellowish 2
Accession No.
1957 - 208
- Accession name
- Ben's Red
- Flowering time ›››
- 1st May10% flowering
6th MayFull (80%) flowering
13th May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Early September 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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