Winter Pearmain
syn. Duck's Bill, Ducksbill of Sussex, Englische Konig's Pearmain, English Winter Pearmain, Grange's Pearmain, Grauwe of Blanke Pepping van der Laan, Great Pearmain, Great Pearmaine, Hertfordshire Pearmain, Old Pearmain, Old Winter Pearmain, Paremens, Parmain d'Hiver, Peare-Maine, Pearemaine, Pearmain, Pearmain Anglaise d'Hiver, Pepin Parmain d'Angleterre, Pepin Parmain d'Hiver, Pepin Pearmain d'Angleterre, Pepin Pearmain d'Hiver, Peppin Parmain d'Hiver, Peppin-Parmain d'Hiver, Peremenes, Permein Drui d'Angleterre, Permenes, Reinette tres Tardive, Somerset Apple Royal, Striped Winter, Sussex Duck's Bill, Sussex Winter Pearmain, Winter Pearmain (of Sussex), Winter Pearmean, Winter Queening, Winter Quoining, Winterparmane
Culinary / Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Thought to be a very old English variety. Fruits have firm, crisp, yellowish flesh with a sweet, subacid flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Early October
- Flowering
- 29th April (10%) · 6th May (full) · 13th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Size
- large
- Type
- Culinary / Dessert
- Shape
- Narrow conical
- Width
- 70.00 mm
- Crunch
- crisp
- Height
- 70.00 mm
- Russet
- very low
- Ribbing
- strong
- Firmness
- firm
- Over colour
- Red
- Flesh colour
- Yellowish
- Ground colour
- Yellow
- Over colour pattern
- streaked
Source · National Fruit Collection
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