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Baldwin

syn. American Baldwin, Baldwin Rosenapfel, Baldwin's Apfel, Baldwin's Roter Pepping, Baldwin's rother Pepping, Baldwin's Rother Pippin, Beldvin, Butter's, Butter's Woodpecker, Butters, Butters' Red Baldwin, Calville Butter, Calville Buttner, Felch, Late Baldwin, Pecker, Pepin Rouge de Baldwin, Peppin rouge de Baldwin, Red Baldwin, Red Baldwin Pippin, Red Baldwin's Pippin, Stecle's Red Winter, Steele's Red Winter, Woodpecker

Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession

Triploid. A chance seedling found on the farm of John Ball, Wilmington, Massachusetts, U.S.A. in about 1740. Introduced by Colonel Baldwin in about 1780. Fruits are coarse textured and juicy but lack flavour. It was once an important commercial variety in the U.S.A.

Material available from the National Fruit Collection.

Picking time
Mid October
Flowering
7th May (10%) · 11th May (full) · 17th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
Size
medium-large
Type
Dessert
Shape
Truncate conical
Width
76.50 mm
Height
63.00 mm
Firmness
firm
Coarseness
coarse
Over colour
Orange
Flesh colour
Yellowish
Ground colour
Yellow
Over colour pattern
striped

Source · National Fruit Collection

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