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Benenden Early
identification: Large, round and flat. Skin base colour when ripe is golden yellow over which are broken orange and red stripes.
origins: Produced by J.J. Gibbons of Southampton during the mid?1940s by crossing a Saint EdmundÕs Pippin and a Lady Sudeley. It was introduced by Stuart Low of Benenden, Kent, in 1952,
cultivation: Moderately vigorous, upright spreading spur bearer. Ripens at the beginning of the first period, in some places even earlier. Prone to cracking.
pollination group: C
pollination peak: 11
ploidism: Self sterile. Group C. Day 11.
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