Saltcote Pippin
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Raised by James Hoad at Rye, Sussex. First recorded in 1918. Received an Award of Merit from the Royal Horticultural Society in 1928. Fruits have firm, slightly juicy flesh with a sweet and good aromatic flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Early October
- Flowering
- 6th May (10%) · 11th May (full) · 18th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Size
- medium
- Type
- Dessert
- Shape
- Broad globose conical
- Width
- 67.00 mm
- Crunch
- crisp
- Height
- 57.00 mm
- Russet
- very low
- Ribbing
- absent
- Firmness
- firm
- Coarseness
- fine
- Over colour
- Orange
- Flesh colour
- Cream
- Ground colour
- Yellow
- Over colour pattern
- streaked
Source · National Fruit Collection
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