Cellini
syn. Celini, Cellini Pippin, Centennial, Chellini, Norfolk Challenger, Philip's Seedling, Phillip's Seedling, Phillips Seedling, Phillips' Seedling, Seedling Peppin, Selling Pippin, Tsellini
Culinary · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Raised by Leonard Phillips, a nurseryman at Vauxhall, London. Introduced in about 1828. Fruits have rather soft, juicy, coarse-textured flesh with a slightly acid flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Mid September
- Flowering
- 6th May (10%) · 12th May (full) · 20th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Flavour
- subacid, aromatic
- Ribbing
- not ribbed
- Fruit size
- medium to large
- Fruit shape
- intermediate, truncate-conic, convex
- Fruit width
- 64-71 mm
- Over colour
- mottled and streaked red
- Flesh colour
- white, sometimes tinged pink
- Fruit height
- 58-64 mm
- Skin texture
- smooth greasy, thin, tender
- Flesh texture
- tender, loose
- Ground colour
- greenish yellow
NFC characterisation
- Size
- large
- Type
- Culinary
- Crown
- absent
- Shape
- Flat globose
- Width
- 72.78 mm
- Height
- 60.31 mm
- Russet
- low
- Ribbing
- absent
- Firmness
- soft
- Greasiness
- Medium
- Over colour
- Orange
- Flesh colour
- White
- Ground colour
- Whitish green
- Over colour amount
- low-medium
- Over colour pattern
- striped/mottled
Source · National Fruit Collection
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