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Grange's Pearmain

syn. Coronation Pippin, Grange Pippin, Grange's Pippin, Moresby's Seedling, Pearmain de Grange, Pearmain Granges, Pomme de Grange, Thoresby Seedling

Culinary / Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession

Raised before 1829 by James Grange, market gardener at Kingsland, Middlesex. It was introduced by Dickson of Chester. Fruits have crisp flesh with a sweet, subacid flavour.

Material available from the National Fruit Collection.

Picking time
Early October
Flowering
6th May (10%) · 12th May (full) · 20th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
Size
large
Type
Culinary / Dessert
Shape
Flat globose
Crunch
crisp
Russet
very low
Ribbing
medium
Over colour
Red
Flesh colour
Yellowish
Ground colour
Green yellow
Over colour pattern
striped

Source · National Fruit Collection

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