Lemon Pippin
syn. Englischer Quittenapfel, Englischer Winter Quitten, Englischer Winter Quittenapfel, Englischer Winter-Quittenapfel, Englischer Winterquittenapfel, Kirk's Lemon Pippin, Kirke's Lemon Pippin, Kirkes Lemon Pippin, Konigin Sophien's Afpel, Konigin Sophienapfel, Konigin Sophiens, Konigin Sophiens Apfel, Konigin Sophiensapfel, Lemon, Limon de Galles, Limon de Galles Pippin, Limonen Reinette, Limonien Apfel, Pepin Lemon des Galles, Pepin Limon de Galles, Pudding Apple, Quince, Quince Appel, Quince Apple, Reine Sophie, Reinette de Madere, Reinette Limon de Galles, Reinette von Madeira, Sophia, Verte de Madere, Waliser Limonen Pepping, Winter Queen
Culinary / Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 2 accessions
Thought to be English or possibly of Norman origin. Fruits have firm, coarse-textured, dry, slightly acid flesh with a faint aromatic flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
Accession 1951-229 · Lemon Pippin
- Picking time
- Early October
- Flowering
- 10th May (10%) · 15th May (full) · 24th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Flavour
- acid
- Ribbing
- not ribbed
- Fruit size
- medium
- Fruit shape
- tall, truncate-conic, convex, often a large protuberance at stalk
- Fruit width
- 61 mm
- Russet type
- dotted
- Flesh colour
- greenish white
- Fruit height
- 66 mm
- Flesh texture
- firm, crisp
- Ground colour
- yellow
NFC characterisation
- Size
- medium
- Type
- Culinary / Dessert
- Crown
- absent
- Shape
- Globose conical
- Width
- 62.60 mm
- Crunch
- crisp
- Height
- 53.61 mm
- Russet
- low-medium
- Ribbing
- weak-medium
- Firmness
- firm
- Juiciness
- dry-medium
- Over colour
- n/a
- Flesh colour
- Cream
- Ground colour
- Green yellow
- Over colour amount
- absent
- Over colour pattern
- n/a
Accession 1999-090 · Yellospur
No descriptor data recorded for this accession.
Source · National Fruit Collection
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