Bosbury Pippin
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Thought to have originated in the West of England. Recorded in 1920. Fruits have firm, pale yellow flesh with a sweet flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Early September
- Flowering
- 7th May (10%) · 12th May (full) · 20th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Flavour
- sweet
- Fruit size
- medium
- Fruit shape
- flat
- Fruit width
- 64 mm
- Over colour
- nearly covered with crimson
- Flesh colour
- pale yellow
- Fruit height
- 45 mm
- Flesh texture
- firm
- Ground colour
- yellow
NFC characterisation
- Size
- large
- Type
- Dessert
- Shape
- Flat
- Firmness
- firm
- Coarseness
- coarse
- Over colour
- Red
- Flesh colour
- Yellowish
- Ground colour
- Yellow
- Over colour amount
- high
- Over colour pattern
- solid flush
Source · National Fruit Collection
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