Pig's Nose Pippin
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Thought to have originated in Hereford, England. Described in 1884. Fruits have fine, crisp flesh with a sweet flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Mid October
- Flowering
- 8th May (10%) · 14th May (full) · 22nd May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Size
- medium
- Type
- Dessert
- Shape
- Globose conical
- Width
- 51.00 mm
- Crunch
- crisp
- Height
- 38.00 mm
- Russet
- low
- Ribbing
- weak
- Coarseness
- fine
- Over colour
- Orange
- Flesh colour
- Cream
- Ground colour
- Yellow
- Over colour pattern
- striped
Source · National Fruit Collection
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