Wadhurst Pippin
syn. Ney Mi, Ney-Mi, Reinette de Wadhurst, Wadhurst Pepping
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Originated in the early 1800s at Wadhurst, Sussex. Fruits have crisp, yellowish flesh with a subacid flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Early October
- Flowering
- 5th May (10%) · 10th May (full) · 18th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Flavour
- subacid
- Ribbing
- strongly ribbed at eye, ribbed on body
- Fruit size
- large
- Fruit shape
- tall to intermediate, rectangular to truncate-conic, convex
- Fruit width
- 76 mm
- Over colour
- flushed brownish red streaked crimson
- Flesh colour
- yellowish
- Fruit height
- 70 mm
- Flesh texture
- crisp
- Ground colour
- yellow tinged green
NFC characterisation
- Size
- large
- Type
- Dessert
- Crown
- medium
- Shape
- Globose
- Width
- 74.08 mm
- Crunch
- crisp-very crisp
- Height
- 65.20 mm
- Russet
- low
- Ribbing
- strong
- Coarseness
- coarse
- Over colour
- Orange
- Flesh colour
- Cream
- Ground colour
- Yellow
- Over colour amount
- absent
- Over colour pattern
- striped/mottled
Source · National Fruit Collection
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