Court of Wick
syn. Anis Seed, Anise Seed, Aniseed, Barlow, Court de Wick, Court of Wick Pippin, Court of Wyck, Fry' Kingswick, Kingswick Pippin, Knightwich Pippin, Knightwick, Knightwick Pippin, Pepping van Court of Wick, Pepping von Court of Wick, Philip's Reinette, Phillip's Reinette, Phillips' Reinette, Phillips's Reinette, Rendell's Pippin, Richlieu Pearmain, Rival Golden Pippin, Transparent Pippin, Week's Pippin, Weeks' Pippin, Weeks's Pippin, Wick Pippin, Wick's Pippin, Wood's Huntingdon, Wood's Huntington, Wood's New Transparent, Wood's Transparent, Wood's Transparent Pippin, Woods Huntingdon, Yellow, Yellow Pippin
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Originated at Court of Wick, Yatton, Somerset and introduced in 1790 by Wood of Huntingdon. Fruits are crisp with a rich and subacid flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Late September
- Flowering
- 9th May (10%) · 14th May (full) · 21st May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Flavour
- subacid, rich
- Ribbing
- not ribbed
- Fruit size
- medium
- Fruit shape
- intermediate, rectangular to truncate-conic, convex
- Fruit width
- 55-59 mm
- Over colour
- flushed orange
- Russet type
- dotted
- Flesh colour
- yellow
- Fruit height
- 44-47 mm
- Flesh texture
- crisp
- Ground colour
- pale yellow
NFC characterisation
- Size
- medium
- Type
- Dessert
- Crown
- weak
- Shape
- Globose conical
- Width
- 61.22 mm
- Crunch
- crisp
- Height
- 53.88 mm
- Russet
- low
- Ribbing
- very weak
- Juiciness
- dry
- Over colour
- Orange
- Flesh colour
- Yellowish
- Ground colour
- Yellow
- Over colour amount
- low-medium
- Over colour pattern
- mottled
Source · National Fruit Collection
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