Applevariety
Black Ben Davis
Also known as Black Ben Dawis
Black Ben Dawis
A dessert apple with yellowish flesh and whitish-yellow skin, flat-round in shape; sweet, mildly tart, aromatic and crisp. Picked in mid-October.
Origin · Washington County, Arkansas, USA
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- subacid
- Scent
- aromatic
- Firmness
- firm
- Bite
- crisp
- Flavour
- subacid, slightly aromatic
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour almost completely covered bright red flushed dark redBackground colour pale yellow
- Flesh
- whitish
- Shape
- flat, conic, convex to straight
- Size
- medium to large
- Appearance
- Surface ridges not ribbed
Origin & family
Where Black Ben Davis began
Recorded origin
Washington County, Arkansas, USA
United States
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- subacid, slightly aromatic
- ribbing
- not ribbed
- synonyms
- Black Ben Dawis
- parentage
- Thought to be a seedling or sport of Ben Davis
- fruit size
- medium to large
- fruit shape
- flat, conic, convex to straight
- over colour
- almost completely covered bright red flushed dark red
- flesh colour
- whitish
- flesh texture
- firm, coarse, crisp
- ground colour
- pale yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.