Allington Pippin
syn. Allington, Allington Peppin, Allington Pepping, Allingtoner Pepping, Allingtonovo jablko, Brown's South Lincoln Beauty, Pepin Allingtona, Pepin d'Allington, South Lincoln Beauty, South Lincoln Pippin
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Raised by Thomas Laxton in Lincolnshire before 1884. It received a First Class Certificate from the Royal Horticultural Society in 1894 under its original name, 'Brown's South Lincoln Beauty'. Renamed in 1894 and introduced by Bunyard of Maidstone in 1896. Once a commercial dessert variety. Fruits have a distinct aromatic flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Early October
- Flowering
- 6th May (10%) · 11th May (full) · 18th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Size
- medium
- Type
- Dessert
- Shape
- Truncate conical
- Width
- 65.00 mm
- Crunch
- crisp
- Height
- 65.00 mm
- Ribbing
- very weak
- Greasiness
- Weak
- Over colour
- Red
- Flesh colour
- Yellowish
- Ground colour
- Yellow
- Over colour amount
- low
- Over colour pattern
- striped
Source · National Fruit Collection
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