Cockle Pippin
syn. Brown Cockle, Brown Cockle Peppin, Brown Cockle Pippin, Cockle Pippin Brown, Cockle's Pippin, Cockles Pippin, Hahn's Pepping, Hahnen Peppin, Hahnen Pepping, Nutmeg Cockle, Nutmeg Cockle Pippin, Nutmeg Pippin, Pepping Hahnen, Pilot Russet, White Cockle, White Cockle Pippin
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Raised in about 1800 by Mr Cockle at Godstone, Surrey. Fruits have firm, fine-textured somewhat dry flesh with a sweet and pleasant flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Mid October
- Flowering
- 6th May (10%) · 11th May (full) · 20th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Flavour
- sweet to subacid
- Ribbing
- slightly ribbed
- Fruit size
- medium to large
- Fruit shape
- tall to intermediate, conic to rectangular, convex
- Fruit width
- 66-79 mm
- Over colour
- brownish orange flush
- Russet type
- thin russet, thicker towards base
- Flesh colour
- creamy white
- Fruit height
- 65-69 mm
- Skin texture
- waxy
- Flesh texture
- firm, crisp
- Ground colour
- greenish yellow
NFC characterisation
- Size
- medium-large
- Type
- Dessert
- Shape
- Broad globose conical
- Crunch
- crisp
- Russet
- low-medium
- Ribbing
- weak
- Firmness
- firm
- Greasiness
- Medium
- Over colour
- Orange
- Flesh colour
- White
- Ground colour
- Green yellow
- Over colour pattern
- solid flush
Source · National Fruit Collection
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