Apple: Black Ben Davis

A chance seedling of Ben Davis noted for it's darker skin, sweeter taste, and longer storage capabilities.

Vigour: High
Precociousness: Medium
Resistances: Some resistances to scab and sooty mould noted
Size of fruit: Medium
Flowering: Late
Fruiting: Late Autumn - Winter
Cropping: Medium
Ploidy: Diploid (?)
Fruit colour: Deep red
Flesh colour: White
Leaf colour: Green
Parentage: Ben Davis x ?
Descendants: Unknown
Biennialism: None observed
Growth habit: Standard V
Self-fertile: Yes

This variety, and it's parent, ate both notable for their long keeping, making them a once widely grown apple for the international export markets, before refrigeration and other storage lengthening methods were available.
Largely relegated to antique status now, it has been said to be a firm apple, with large grain size, sweet but not complex. Excellent for preserves.

Black Ben Davis scion grafted to M27 (2021)

NOTE: I have yet to try this apple directly, having only grafted it in 2021, and so have relied on others for information related to this variety.
This entry will be updated as the tree grows and bears.