Applevariety
Benenden Early
A dessert apple, broad round conical in shape, green-yellow skin, yellowish flesh. Picked in mid-August. Raised around 1945; introduced in 1952. Subacid and soft.
Origin · Southampton
Released 1952
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- soft
- Texture
- Flesh grain coarse
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour OrangeBackground colour Green yellowSurface colour coverage highSurface colour pattern streaked
- Flesh
- Yellowish
- Shape
- Broad globose conical
- Size
- largeWidth 80.00 mmHeight 60.00 mm
Origin & family
Where Benenden Early began
Recorded origin
Southampton
- Released
- 1952
Benenden Early’s family
3 varieties · 2 recorded linksArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Benenden Early
Southampton
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- large
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Broad globose conical
- width
- 80.00 mm
- height
- 60.00 mm
- firmness
- soft
- parentage
- Saint Edmund's Pippin x Lady Sudeley
- coarseness
- coarse
- over colour
- Orange
- flesh colour
- Yellowish
- ground colour
- Green yellow
- over colour amount
- high
- over colour pattern
- streaked
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.