Cellini
Culinary apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Raised by Leonard Phillips, a nurseryman at Vauxhall, London. Introduced in about 1828. Fruits have rather soft, juicy, coarse-textured flesh with a slightly acid flavour.
- Synonyms:
- Celini, Cellini Pippin, Centennial, Chellini, Norfolk Challenger, Philip's Seedling, Phillip's Seedling, Phillips Seedling, Phillips' Seedling, Seedling Peppin, Selling Pippin, Tsellini
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Parentage:
- Nonsuch x Unknown
- Mother to:
- James Lawson
- Duchess of Bedford
- Exquisite
- Father to:
- Prince Edward
- Glebe Gold
Accession No.
1947 - 310
- Accession name
- Cellini
- Flowering time ›››
- 6th May10% flowering
12th MayFull (80%) flowering 20th May90% petal fall
- Picking time
- Mid September 1
- Size
- large 1
- Shape
- Flat globose 1
- Height
- 60.31 mm 1
- Width
- 72.78 mm 1
- Ribbing
- absent 1
- Crown
- absent 1
- Ground Colour
- Whitish green 1
- Over Colour
- Orange 1
- Over Colour Amount
- low-medium 1
- Over Colour Pattern
- striped/mottled 1
- Russet
- low 1
- Greasiness
- Medium 1
- Flesh Colour
- White 1


- References:
- 1. NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.
- 2. Smith, M. (1971) National Apple Register
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