Upton Pyne
Culinary / Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Raised by Pyne of Topsham, Devon. Introduced in 1910. Fruits have firm, rather coarse-textured, juicy flesh with a somewhat acid and fair flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Early October
- Flowering
- 6th May (10%) · 11th May (full) · 20th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Tree
- upright growth
- Flavour
- subacid, slightly aromatic, pine flavour
- Fruit size
- large
- Fruit shape
- conic, convex
- Over colour
- striped pink
- Flesh colour
- white
- Flesh texture
- firm
- Ground colour
- golden yellow
NFC characterisation
- Size
- large
- Type
- Culinary / Dessert
- Crown
- medium
- Shape
- Globose conical
- Russet
- very low
- Ribbing
- weak-medium
- Firmness
- firm
- Coarseness
- coarse
- Over colour
- Orange
- Flesh colour
- Yellowish
- Ground colour
- Whitish yellow
- Over colour amount
- low-medium
- Over colour pattern
- striped/mottled
Source · National Fruit Collection
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