Fall Pippin
syn. American Fall, American Fall Pippin, Autumn Pippin, Cat Head, Cobbet's Fall, Cobbet's Fall Pippin, Cobbett's Fall, Cobbett's Fall Pippin, Concombre Ancien, Corbett's Fall Pippin, Corbett's Tall Pippin, de Rateau, Episcopal, Golden Pippin, Holland Pippin, Pepin d'Automne, Philadelphia Pippin, Pound Pippin, Pound Royal, Prince's Large Pippin, Reinette Blanche d'Espagne, Reinnete Blanche d'Espagne, Sudlow's Fall Pippin, Summer Pippin, Van Duym's Pippin, Van Dyn's Pippin, York, York Pippin
Culinary / Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Originated in the USA and first recorded in 1806. Fruits have moderately firm, fine, tender flesh with a subacid and aromatic flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Mid September
- Flowering
- 6th May (10%) · 12th May (full) · 20th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Flavour
- subacid, aromatic
- Ribbing
- slightly ribbed
- Fruit size
- large
- Fruit shape
- intermediate, rectangular to truncate-conic, convex
- Over colour
- occasional faint flush
- Flesh texture
- moderately firm, fine, tender
- Ground colour
- greenish yellow
NFC characterisation
- Size
- large
- Type
- Culinary / Dessert
- Shape
- Globose conical
- Ribbing
- weak
- Firmness
- medium-firm
- Coarseness
- fine-medium
- Ground colour
- Green yellow
- Over colour amount
- absent
- Over colour pattern
- washed out
Source · National Fruit Collection
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