Iron Pin
Culinary · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Thought to have originated in Dorset, England. It was described in 1884. Fruits have firm, tender, greenish white flesh with a subacid flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Late October
- Flowering
- 7th May (10%) · 12th May (full) · 20th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Size
- medium
- Type
- Culinary
- Shape
- Oblong
- Width
- 60.00 mm
- Height
- 52.50 mm
- Russet
- very low
- Ribbing
- medium
- Firmness
- firm
- Coarseness
- fine
- Greasiness
- Medium
- Over colour
- Brown
- Flesh colour
- Greenish
- Ground colour
- Green
Source · National Fruit Collection
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