Applevariety
Benoni
Also known as Fail me never +1
Fail me never · Fail-me-Never
A dessert apple, medium fruit, whitish-yellow skin, yellowish flesh. Picked in early-September. Raised around 1830. Sweet, aromatic and juicy.
Origin · Dedham, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Scent
- aromatic
- Firmness
- tender
- Juiciness
- juicy
- Flavour
- sweet-subacid, aromatic
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour flushed light red, striped crimsonSkin texture smooth, thin, greasy, tenderBackground colour pale yellow
- Flesh
- yellow
- Shape
- variable, tall to intermediate, rectangular to truncate-conic, straight to convex
- Size
- mediumFruit width 55-62 mmFruit height 45-61 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges slightly ribbed at eyeRusset pattern russet at base
Origin & family
Where Benoni began
Recorded origin
Dedham, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
United States
Benoni’s family
2 varieties · 1 recorded linkArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Benoni
Dedham, Massachusetts, U.S.A., United States
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
Benoni → Red BenoniParent · Recorded
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- tree
- upright
- sports
- Red Benoni
- flavour
- sweet-subacid, aromatic
- ribbing
- slightly ribbed at eye
- synonyms
- Fail me never, Fail-me-Never
- fruit size
- medium
- fruit shape
- variable, tall to intermediate, rectangular to truncate-conic, straight to convex
- fruit width
- 55-62 mm
- over colour
- flushed light red, striped crimson
- russet type
- russet at base
- flesh colour
- yellow
- fruit height
- 45-61 mm
- skin texture
- smooth, thin, greasy, tender
- flesh texture
- tender, fine
- ground colour
- pale yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.