Eccleston Pippin
Culinary / Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Raised by Mr Barnes, Head Gardener to the Duke of Westminster at Eaton Hall, Cheshire. It was first described in 1883. Fruits have coarse, but tender flesh with a subacid flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Mid September
- Flowering
- 5th May (10%) · 11th May (full) · 19th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Size
- medium
- Type
- Culinary / Dessert
- Shape
- Broad globose conical
- Width
- 66.00 mm
- Height
- 50.00 mm
- Russet
- very low
- Ribbing
- weak-medium
- Coarseness
- coarse
- Over colour
- Pink
- Flesh colour
- Cream
- Ground colour
- Green
- Over colour amount
- low
- Over colour pattern
- striped
Source · National Fruit Collection
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