Wyken Pippin
syn. Airley, Alford Prize, Arley, Arley Apple, Gerkin Pippin, German Nonpareil, Girkin Pippin, Pepin de Warwickshire, Pepin du Warwick, Pepping aus Warwickshire, Pepping von Wyken, Pheasant's Eye, Pippin du Warwick, Warwick Pippin, Warwickshire Pippin, White Moloscha
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 2 accessions
Said to have been raised by Lord Craven from seed of a continental apple and planted at Wyken near Coventry. It is also said to have been brought to the UK from Holland in the early 1700s. Fruits have creamy white, moderately firm, fine-textured, juicy flesh with a sweet and good aromatic flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
Accession 2000-101 · Wyken Pippin
- Picking time
- Mid October
- Flowering
- 7th May (10%) · 12th May (full) · 20th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Size
- medium
- Type
- Dessert
- Shape
- Flat
- Width
- 60.00 mm
- Crunch
- crisp
- Height
- 42.00 mm
- Russet
- very low
- Ribbing
- very weak
- Firmness
- firm
- Coarseness
- fine
- Over colour
- Brown
- Flesh colour
- Cream
- Ground colour
- Green yellow
Accession 2002-055 · Whiting Pippin
No descriptor data recorded for this accession.
Source · National Fruit Collection
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