Applevariety
Herefordshire Beefing
Also known as Hereford Beaufin +3
Hereford Beaufin · Hereford Beefing · Herefordshire · Herefordshire Beaufin
A cooking apple with greenish flesh and green-yellow skin, flat in shape; tart, crisp and firm. Picked in early October.
Origin · Herefordshire, England
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- acid
- Firmness
- firm
- Bite
- crisp
- Used for
- Culinary apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour RedBackground colour Green yellowSurface colour coverage high-very high
- Flesh
- Greenish
- Shape
- Flat
- Size
- mediumWidth 62.50 mmHeight 47.00 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges weak
Origin & family
Where Herefordshire Beefing began
Recorded origin
Herefordshire, England
United Kingdom
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- medium
- type
- Culinary
- shape
- Flat
- width
- 62.50 mm
- crunch
- crisp
- height
- 47.00 mm
- russet
- very low
- ribbing
- weak
- firmness
- firm
- synonyms
- Hereford Beaufin, Hereford Beefing, Herefordshire, Herefordshire Beaufin
- over colour
- Red
- flesh colour
- Greenish
- ground colour
- Green yellow
- over colour amount
- high-very high
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.