Cambusnethan Pippin
syn. Cambusneathan, Cambusneathan Pippin, Cambusnethan, Cambusnethan Apfel, Hollow Snout, Scotch Winter Red Streak, Scotch Winter Redstreak, Watch Apple, Winter Red Streak, Winter Red-Streak, Winter Redstreak
Culinary / Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Raised in about 1750 either by Paton the gardener at Cambusnethan House, Stirlingshire, Scotland or at the Cambusnethan Monastery. Fruits have fine textured flesh with little juice and a sweet, faintly perfumed flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Mid September
- Flowering
- 10th May (10%) · 15th May (full) · 24th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Size
- small-medium
- Type
- Culinary / Dessert
- Shape
- Flat
- Crunch
- crisp
- Russet
- very low
- Ribbing
- absent
- Over colour
- Orange
- Flesh colour
- Greenish
- Ground colour
- Green yellow
- Over colour amount
- low
- Over colour pattern
- striped
Source · National Fruit Collection
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
View on the NFC site