Rose de Benauge

Rose de Benauge at the National Fruit Collection, Brogdale. National Fruit Collection, Brogdale, via Wikimedia Commons. Source; Open Government Licence v2.0.

Origin: Bordeaux district, France, by 1872
Parentage: Parents unknown
Uses: Dessert
Picked: October, in Brogdale, Kent (the National Fruit Collection)
Skin: ground colour yellow; over-colour flushed with bright red
Flesh: Yellowish white
Flavour: Sweet subacid
Ploidy: Diploid
Also called: Bonne de Mai; Cadillac; Codillac; de Cadillac; Dieu; Dieudonne; Pomme de Cadillac; Pomme de Codellac; Pomme de Codillac; Rose (de Knoop); Rose d ' Hollande; Rose d' Holland; Rose de Dropt; Rose de Holland; Rose de Hollande; Rose de la Benauge; Rose de Mai; Rose du Dropt; Rose Tendre; Rosenapfel aus Benauge; Rozovka iz Benozha

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

Thought to have originated in the Bordeaux district of France. Recorded in 1872. Fruits have firm, fairly tender, yellowish white flesh with a sweet subacid flavour.

Where Rose de Benauge came from.

Sources

Rose de Benauge (accession 1957 - 081), National Fruit Collection, Brogdale, Kent (Defra). Supports: the description quoted; the use; the fruit's size, shape and colours and the flesh, from the collection's characterisation; the picking time at Brogdale (late october); the other names.
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).

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