Applevariety
Beacon
Also known as Fenton +1
Fenton · Miller Red
An early-season Minnesota apple with soft, tender flesh.
Origin · Minnesota, United States
Released 1936
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Firmness
- soft
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour RedBackground colour YellowSurface colour coverage medium-highSurface colour pattern striped
- Shape
- Conical
- Size
- medium-largeWidth 64.00 mmHeight 54.50 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges weak
Origin & family
Where Beacon began
Recorded origin
Minnesota
United States
- Institution
- University of Minnesota
- Released
- 1936
Beacon’s family
2 varieties · 1 recorded linkArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Beacon
Minnesota, United States
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
Wealthy → BeaconParent · Recorded
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- medium-large
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Conical
- width
- 64.00 mm
- height
- 54.50 mm
- russet
- very low
- ribbing
- weak
- firmness
- soft
- synonyms
- Fenton, Miller Red
- parentage
- Malinda x Wealthy
- over colour
- Red
- ground colour
- Yellow
- over colour amount
- medium-high
- over colour pattern
- striped
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 On the tree at the UK National Fruit Collection.