Greenup's Pippin
syn. American Pippin, Belle de Yorkshire, Councillor, Counseller, Counsellor, Cumberland Favorite, Cumberland Favourite, Dalzell Manse Codlin, Dalzell Manx Codlin, Dunmore Pearmain, Green Rolland, Greenup Pippin, Greenup's Apfel, Greenup's Apple, Greenups Pippin, Greenus's Pippin, New Northern Greening, Oxford Peach, Palmer's Glory, Red Hawthornden, Red Norman Bitter- Sweet, Rolland Green, Sunflower, Walsgrove Wonder, Yorkshire Beauty
Culinary / Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Found in the garden of shoemaker Greenup in Keswick and introduced in the late 1700s by nurserymen Clarke & Atkinson, Keswick. Fruits have tender, yellowish white flesh with a sweet subacid flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Mid September
- Flowering
- 10th May (10%) · 15th May (full) · 22nd May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Flavour
- sweet, subacid
- Ribbing
- ribbed on body and at eye
- Fruit size
- large
- Fruit shape
- flat to intermediate, truncate-conic, convex
- Fruit width
- 76 mm
- Over colour
- flushed bright red
- Russet type
- slight russet
- Flesh colour
- yellowish white
- Fruit height
- 64 mm
- Flesh texture
- tender
- Ground colour
- yellow
NFC characterisation
- Size
- large-very large
- Type
- Culinary / Dessert
- Crown
- medium
- Shape
- Globose conical
- Width
- 83.73 mm
- Height
- 74.23 mm
- Russet
- low
- Ribbing
- medium
- Juiciness
- dry-medium
- Coarseness
- coarse
- Over colour
- Pink
- 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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