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Apple varieties, United States

Black Ben Davis

The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it1:

A coloured sport of Ben Davis. It arose in about 1880 on the farm of M. Black, Washington County, Arkansas, USA. Fruits have firm, sweet flesh with little flavour.

Black Ben Davis
Where Black Ben Davis came from.

Sources

  1. Black Ben Davis (accession 1967 - 060), 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 october); the other names.
  2. Ploidy level (descriptor 115159), study MALUS.PLOIDYDETERMINATION.2008, USDA Agricultural Research Service, GRIN-Global, 2008. Supports: its ploidy, diploid, measured by flow cytometry on accession PI 589178 of the USDA apple collection at Geneva, New York.

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