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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