Bow Hill Pippin
syn. Bow Hill, Bow-Hill Pippin, Bowhill Pippin, Pepin Bau Khill, Pepin Bow Hill
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Raised by A.S.White, Bow Hill, Maidstone, Kent and introduced in about 1893 by G. Bunyard Ltd., Maidstone. Received an Award of Merit from the Royal Horticultural Society in 1893. Fruits have firm, rather coarse-textured, juicy flesh with a sweet, aromatic flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Early October
- Flowering
- 6th May (10%) · 11th May (full) · 19th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Size
- medium
- Type
- Dessert
- Shape
- Flat globose
- Width
- 60.00 mm
- Crunch
- crisp
- Height
- 50.00 mm
- Russet
- very low
- Firmness
- firm
- Over colour
- Orange
- Flesh colour
- Yellowish
- Ground colour
- Yellow
- Over colour amount
- low
- Over colour pattern
- striped
Source · National Fruit Collection
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