Downton Pippin
syn. de Downton, Downton, Downton Golden Pippin, Downton Pepping, Downton-Pepping, Downton's Pepping, Downtoner Pipping, Elton Golden Pippin, Elton Pippin, Knight's Golden Pippin, Knight's Pippin, Majestic, Pepin Dauntona, Pepin de Downton, Pomme de Downton, Reinette Carmelite, Saint Mary's Pippin, Saint-Mary's Pippin, St. Mary's Pippin
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Raised by Thomas Andrew Knight at Wormsley Grange, Hereford. It was first exhibited in 1806. Fruits have firm, crisp flesh with a sweet, subacid, vinous flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Mid September
- Flowering
- 7th May (10%) · 12th May (full) · 20th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Flavour
- vinous, sweet, subacid
- Fruit size
- medium
- Fruit shape
- intermediate to flat, rectangular, convex
- Fruit width
- 51 mm
- Over colour
- slightly tinged red
- Russet type
- dotted with russet
- Flesh colour
- yellowish white
- Fruit height
- 44 mm
- Flesh texture
- firm, crisp
- Ground colour
- yellow
NFC characterisation
- Size
- small
- Type
- Dessert
- Crown
- absent
- Shape
- Flat globose
- Width
- 53.77 mm
- Crunch
- crisp
- Height
- 44.10 mm
- Russet
- low-medium
- Ribbing
- absent
- Firmness
- firm
- Juiciness
- dry-medium
- Over colour
- n/a
- Flesh colour
- Yellowish
- Ground colour
- Yellow
- Over colour amount
- absent
- Over colour pattern
- n/a
Source · National Fruit Collection
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