Sturmer Pippin
syn. Apple Royal, Creech Pearmain, Moxhay, Pearmain de Sturmer, Pepin de Sturmer, Pepin iz Shturmera, Royal, Stur1ner's Pepping, Sturmer, Sturmer Pepping, Sturmer's Pippin, Sturmers Pepping
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Raised by nurseryman Dillistone at Sturmer, Suffolk, England. First recorded in 1831. Fruits have very firm, fine-textured, juicy flesh with a little subacid and rich aromatic flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Late October
- Flowering
- 5th May (10%) · 10th May (full) · 16th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Size
- medium
- Type
- Dessert
- Shape
- Broad globose conical
- Width
- 60.00 mm
- Height
- 51.50 mm
- Russet
- very low
- Ribbing
- medium
- Firmness
- firm-very firm
- Over colour
- Brown
- Flesh colour
- Greenish
- Ground colour
- Green yellow
Source · National Fruit Collection
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