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Brown Kenting
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
An apple of UK origin. Recorded in 1831. Fruits have sweet, firm flesh.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
Accession No.
1948 - 025
- Accession name
- Brown Kenting
- Flowering time ›››
- 12th May10% flowering
17th MayFull (80%) flowering
25th May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Late September 1
- Size
- medium 1
- Shape
- Flat 1
- Height
- 52.98 mm 1
- Width
- 67.47 mm 1
- Ribbing
- strong 1
- Crown
- medium-strong 1
- Ground Colour
- Whitish yellow 1
- Over Colour
- Pink 1
- Over Colour Amount
- absent 1
- Over Colour Pattern
- washed out 1
- Russet
- low 1
- Crunch
- crisp 1
- Flesh Colour
- Cream 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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