Bedminster Pippin
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Thought to have probably originated in Gloucestershire, England. Received by the National Fruit Trials in 1952. Fruits have soft, coarse textured flesh with an acid to subacid flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Mid September
- Flowering
- 13th May (10%) · 18th May (full) · 26th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Tree
- tip bearer
- Flavour
- subacid to acid
- Ribbing
- slightly ribbed at eye and on body
- Fruit size
- medium
- Fruit shape
- flat, rectangular, slightly convex
- Fruit width
- 64 mm
- Russet type
- patched and netted brown russet
- Flesh colour
- whitish
- Fruit height
- 53 mm
- Skin texture
- rough
- Flesh texture
- soft, coarse, woolly
- Ground colour
- greenish yellow to yellow
NFC characterisation
- Size
- large
- Type
- Dessert
- Crown
- absent
- Shape
- Flat globose
- Width
- 71.59 mm
- Crunch
- crumbly
- Height
- 58.03 mm
- Russet
- low-medium
- Ribbing
- weak-medium
- Firmness
- soft
- Juiciness
- dry
- Coarseness
- coarse
- Greasiness
- Weak
- Over colour
- Orange
- Flesh colour
- Cream
- Ground colour
- Yellow
- Over colour amount
- very low
- Over colour pattern
- washed out
Source · National Fruit Collection
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