East Lothian Pippin
syn. Baillie Neilson, Baillie Nielson, East Lothian Seedling, The Baillie
Culinary · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Thought to have originated from Scotland. It was first described in 1883. It is indistinguishable from Hill's Seedling in the National Apple Collection. Fruits have firm, crisp flesh with an acid flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Mid August
- Flowering
- 7th May (10%) · 11th May (full) · 19th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Size
- medium-large
- Type
- Culinary
- Shape
- Flat
- Width
- 70.00 mm
- Crunch
- crisp
- Height
- 57.50 mm
- Russet
- very low
- Ribbing
- weak
- Firmness
- firm
- Over colour
- Brown
- Flesh colour
- White
- Ground colour
- Green yellow
- Over colour amount
- very low
Source · National Fruit Collection
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