Saint Edmund's Pippin
syn. Early Golden Russet, Saint-Edmund's Pippin, St. Edmonds, St. Edmund's Pippin, St. Edmund's Russet, St. Edmunds, St. Edmunds Pippin, St. Edmunds Russet
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Raised by R. Harvey at Bury St. Edmunds, England. Recorded in 1875. It received a First Class Certificate from the Royal Horticultural Society in 1875. Fruits have moderately firm, juicy, slightly acid flesh with good flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Mid September
- Flowering
- 2nd May (10%) · 7th May (full) · 13th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Size
- medium
- Type
- Dessert
- Shape
- Broad globose conical
- Width
- 60.00 mm
- Crunch
- crisp
- Height
- 53.50 mm
- Russet
- high-very high
- Ribbing
- very weak
- Firmness
- firm
- Coarseness
- fine
- Greasiness
- Weak
- Over colour
- Brown
- Flesh colour
- Cream
- Ground colour
- Green yellow
- Over colour amount
- very low
Source · National Fruit Collection
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