Apple varieties, United Kingdom
Ben's Red
The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it1:
Raised by Benjamin Roberts at Trannack, Cornwall, England in about 1830. Received an Award of Merit from the Royal Horticultural Society in 1899. Fruits have firm, dry, somewhat coarse textured flesh with a sweet, pleasant flavour.
Family tree
Parents, grandparents and great-grandparents, as the entries in the atlas record them.
- Ben's Red United Kingdom, about 1830
- Parent Devonshire Quarrenden United Kingdom, by 1678
- Parent Box Apple United Kingdom, by 1955
Sources
- Ben's Red (accession 1957 - 208), 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 (early september).
- 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 parents, Devonshire Quarrenden and Box Apple, found from SNP data (supplementary table S3); its ploidy, diploid (supplementary table S1).
