Applevariety
Ben's Red
A dessert apple with yellowish flesh, flat,-crunch-crisp in shape; sweet, crisp, firm and dry. Picked in early September.
Origin · Trannack, Cornwall, England
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Firmness
- firm
- Bite
- crisp
- Texture
- Flesh grain fine
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour Dark redSurface colour coverage high-very highSurface colour pattern striped
- Flesh
- Yellowish
- Shape
- Flat
- Size
- medium-largeWidth 72.50 mmHeight 52.50 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges weak
Origin & family
Where Ben's Red began
Recorded origin
Trannack, Cornwall, England
United Kingdom
Ben's Red’s family
3 varieties · 2 recorded linksArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Ben's Red
Trannack, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- medium-large
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Flat
- width
- 72.50 mm
- crunch
- crisp
- height
- 52.50 mm
- russet
- very low
- ribbing
- weak
- firmness
- firm
- parentage
- Devonshire Quarrenden x Farleigh Pippin
- coarseness
- fine
- over colour
- Dark red
- flesh colour
- Yellowish
- over colour amount
- high-very high
- over colour pattern
- striped
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.