Cockle Pippin
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Raised in about 1800 by Mr Cockle at Godstone, Surrey. Fruits have firm, fine-textured somewhat dry flesh with a sweet and pleasant flavour.
- Synonyms:
- Brown Cockle, Brown Cockle Peppin, Brown Cockle Pippin, Cockle Pippin Brown, Cockle's Pippin, Cockles Pippin, Hahn's Pepping, Hahnen Peppin, Hahnen Pepping, Nutmeg Cockle, Nutmeg Cockle Pippin, Nutmeg Pippin, Pepping Hahnen, Pilot Russet, White Cockle, White Cockle Pippin
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
Accession No.
2000 - 027
- Accession name
- Cockle Pippin
- Flowering time ›››
- 6th May10% flowering
11th MayFull (80%) flowering 20th May90% petal fall
- Picking time
- Mid October 1
- Size
- medium-large 1
- Shape
- Broad globose conical 1
- Ribbing
- weak 1
- Ground Colour
- Green yellow 1
- Over Colour
- Orange 1
- Over Colour Pattern
- solid flush 1
- Russet
- low-medium 1
- Greasiness
- Medium 1
- Crunch
- crisp 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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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