Apple varieties, United Kingdom
Benenden Early
The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it1:
Raised in about 1945 at Southampton by J.J. Gibbons, and introduced in 1952 by Stuart Low Ltd., Benenden, Kent. Fruits have coarse, soft flesh with a subacid flavour.
Family tree
Parents, grandparents and great-grandparents, as the entries in the atlas record them.
- Benenden Early United Kingdom, about 1945
- Seed parent Saint Edmund's Pippin United Kingdom, by 1875
- Pollen parent Lady Sudeley United Kingdom, about 1849
Sources
- Benenden Early (accession 1954 - 008), National Fruit Collection, Brogdale, Kent (Defra). Supports: the description quoted; the parentage; the use; the fruit's size, shape and colours and the flesh, from the collection's characterisation; the picking time at Brogdale (mid august).
- Using whole-genome SNP data to reconstruct a large multi-generation pedigree in apple germplasm, Hélène Muranty and others, BMC Plant Biology 20:2, 2020. Supports: its ploidy, diploid (supplementary table S1).
