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Colonel Vaughan
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Originated in Kent. It was known in the late 1600s. Fruits have firm, white, sometimes stained red flesh with a sweet to subacid flavour.
- Synonyms:
- Amasa, Colonel Vaughan's, Colonel Vaughn's, Kentish Pippin, Pepping, Red Coachman, Red Kentish Pippin, Roter Kentische Peppin, Roter Kentischer Pepping, Scarlet Incomparable, Vaughan's Pippin, Vaughn's Pippin, Vaun's Pippin
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Shape
- Ellipsoid 2
- Size
- medium 2
- Height
- 60.00mm 2
- Width
- 55.00mm 2
- Ribbing
- weak-medium 2
- Ground Colour
- Yellow 2
- Over Colour
- Red 2
- Over Colour (Amount)
- high-very high 2
- Over Colour (Pattern)
- striped 2
- Flesh Colour
- White 2
Accession No.
2000 - 028
- Accession name
- Colonel Vaughan
- Flowering time ›››
- 5th May10% flowering
11th MayFull (80%) flowering
18th May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Early October 1
- References:
- 1. NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.
- 2. Smith, M. (1971) National Apple Register
Design: Chris Turnbull, September 2019