Greasy Pippin (Northern Ireland)
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Originated from Ireland. It was described in 1951. Fruits become very greasy. Flesh is firm and crisp and has a sweet flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Late September
- Flowering
- 10th May (10%) · 16th May (full) · 22nd May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Flavour
- sweet
- Ribbing
- ribbed on body and at eye
- Fruit size
- medium
- Fruit shape
- flat, rectangular to truncate-conic, convex
- Fruit width
- 64 mm
- Russet type
- russet dots and veining
- Flesh colour
- creamy white
- Fruit height
- 51 mm
- Skin texture
- very greasy
- Flesh texture
- firm, crisp
- Ground colour
- golden yellow
NFC characterisation
- Size
- large
- Type
- Dessert
- Crown
- very weak
- Shape
- Broad globose conical
- Width
- 73.35 mm
- Crunch
- crisp
- Height
- 63.01 mm
- Russet
- very low
- Ribbing
- weak-medium
- Firmness
- firm
- Over colour
- Orange
- Flesh colour
- White
- Ground colour
- Whitish yellow
- Over colour amount
- very low
- Over colour pattern
- washed out
Source · National Fruit Collection
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