Lancashire Pippin (Underbarrow)
Culinary / Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Received by NFT 1950. Origin: Received from Underbarrow in Westmorland.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Mid September
- Flowering
- 12th May (10%) · 18th May (full) · 25th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Flavour
- subacid
- Ribbing
- slightly ribbed at eye and on body
- Fruit size
- medium
- Fruit shape
- intermediate, truncate-conic, convex
- Fruit width
- 57-65 mm
- Over colour
- flushed orange and bright pinkish red stripes
- Russet type
- some russet on base
- Flesh colour
- creamy white
- Fruit height
- 53-61 mm
- Flesh texture
- soft, slightly coarse
- Ground colour
- greenish yellow
NFC characterisation
- Size
- large
- Type
- Culinary / Dessert
- Crown
- weak-medium
- Shape
- Broad globose conical
- Russet
- low
- Ribbing
- weak-medium
- Firmness
- soft
- Coarseness
- fine
- Over colour
- Red
- Flesh colour
- Cream
- Ground colour
- Yellow
- Over colour amount
- medium-high
- Over colour pattern
- striped/mottled
Source · National Fruit Collection
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