Lucombe's Pine
syn. Lucombe's Pine Apple, Lucombe's Pine-Apple, Pine Apple, Pine Apple Pippin, Pine-Apple, Pine-Apple Pippin
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Raised in about 1800 by Lucombe, Pince & Co., Exeter. Fruits have tender, yellowish white flesh with a rich, aromatic, pineapple-like flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Early October
- Flowering
- 9th May (10%) · 13th May (full) · 20th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Size
- medium
- Type
- Dessert
- Shape
- Truncate conical
- Width
- 63.00 mm
- Height
- 51.00 mm
- Russet
- very low
- Ribbing
- weak
- Over colour
- Orange
- Flesh colour
- Yellowish
- Ground colour
- Whitish yellow
Source · National Fruit Collection
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