Ribston Pippin
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Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Raised at Ribston Hall, Yorkshire, England from seed brought from Rouen, and planted in about 1707. Received the Award of Merit from the Royal Horticultural Society in 1962. Fruits have firm, fine-textured, moderately juicy flesh with a rich aromatic flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Late September
- Flowering
- 3rd May (10%) · 8th May (full) · 16th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Size
- medium
- Type
- Dessert
- Shape
- Flat
- Width
- 66.50 mm
- Height
- 55.50 mm
- Russet
- low
- Ribbing
- medium
- Firmness
- firm
- Coarseness
- fine
- Greasiness
- Medium
- Over colour
- Orange
- Flesh colour
- Yellowish
- Ground colour
- Yellow
- Over colour pattern
- streaked
Source · National Fruit Collection
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