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Woolbrook Pippin

Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession

Raised in 1903 by Stevens & Son, Woolbrook Nursery, Sidmouth, Devon. Received an Award of Merit from the Royal Horticultural Society in 1929. Fruits have firm, crisp, tender flesh with a sweet, slightly acid, slightly aromatic flavour.

Material available from the National Fruit Collection.

Picking time
Mid September
Flowering
4th May (10%) · 10th 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
55.50 mm
Russet
very low
Ribbing
weak
Firmness
firm
Greasiness
Weak
Over colour
Orange
Flesh colour
White
Ground colour
Green yellow
Over colour pattern
striped

Source · National Fruit Collection

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