Apple varieties, United Kingdom
Striped Beefing
The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it1:
Found by George Lindley in the garden of William Crowe, Lakenham, Norwich, England in 1794. Distributed in 1847. Fruits have firm, coarse-textured, moderately juicy flesh with a fairly acid flavour.
Sources
- Striped Beefing (accession 1946 - 017), 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 (early october); the other names.
