Grey Pippin
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Discovered in about 1980 by fruit grower J. Tann, Essex. Fruits are sweet with a pleasant flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Early October
- Flowering
- 25th April (10%) · 27th April (full) · 6th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Fruit size
- medium
- Fruit shape
- intermediate, rectangular, convex
- Russet type
- netted russet
- Ground colour
- green
NFC characterisation
- Size
- medium
- Type
- Dessert
- Crown
- weak-medium
- Shape
- Broad globose conical
- Width
- 68.69 mm
- Crunch
- crisp
- Height
- 65.78 mm
- Russet
- low-medium
- Ribbing
- weak-medium
- Over colour
- Orange
- Flesh colour
- Cream
- Ground colour
- Green yellow
- Over colour amount
- absent
- Over colour pattern
- washed out
Source · National Fruit Collection
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