Galloway Pippin
syn. Croft en Reich, Croft St. Andrews, Croft-en-Reich, Gallibro, Gallibro Pippin, Galloway, Galloway Apple, Galloway Pepping, Galloway's, Galloway's Apple, Galway's, Galway's Pippin, Graft-en-Reich, Pepin Galloveiskii, Pepin Galloway
Culinary · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Believed to have come from Wigtown, Galloway, Scotland. It was first brought to notice in 1871 but is thought to be much older. Received First Class Certificate from the Royal Horticultural Society in 1871. Fruits have firm, crisp, juicy flesh with a subacid flavour. Cooks well.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Late September
- Flowering
- 9th May (10%) · 13th May (full) · 20th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Flavour
- subacid
- Ribbing
- slightly ribbed at eye
- Fruit size
- large
- Fruit shape
- flat, rectangular, convex
- Fruit width
- 76 mm
- Over colour
- slight brownish red flush
- Russet type
- some russet
- Flesh colour
- pale yellow
- Fruit height
- 64 mm
- Flesh texture
- crisp
- Ground colour
- yellow
NFC characterisation
- Size
- large
- Type
- Culinary
- Crown
- weak-medium
- Shape
- Flat globose
- Width
- 77.21 mm
- Crunch
- crisp
- Height
- 60.38 mm
- Russet
- low
- Ribbing
- weak-medium
- Firmness
- firm
- Coarseness
- coarse
- Over colour
- Pink
- Flesh colour
- Cream
- Ground colour
- Whitish yellow
- Over colour amount
- very low
- Over colour pattern
- washed out
Source · National Fruit Collection
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