Downton Pippin
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Raised by Thomas Andrew Knight at Wormsley Grange, Hereford. It was first exhibited in 1806. Fruits have firm, crisp flesh with a sweet, subacid, vinous flavour.
- Synonyms:
- de Downton, Downton, Downton Golden Pippin, Downton Pepping, Downton-Pepping, Downton's Pepping, Downtoner Pipping, Elton Golden Pippin, Elton Pippin, Knight's Golden Pippin, Knight's Pippin, Majestic, Pepin Dauntona, Pepin de Downton, Pomme de Downton, Reinette Carmelite, Saint Mary's Pippin, Saint-Mary's Pippin, St. Mary's Pippin
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Material held in the Marcher Apple Network collections (Paramor)
- Parentage:
- Orange Pippin x Golden Pippin
Accession No.
1948 - 022
- Accession name
- Downton Pippin
- Flowering time ›››
- 7th May10% flowering
12th MayFull (80%) flowering 20th May90% petal fall
- Picking time
- Mid September 1
- Size
- small 1
- Shape
- Flat globose 1
- Height
- 44.10 mm 1
- Width
- 53.77 mm 1
- Ribbing
- absent 1
- Crown
- absent 1
- Ground Colour
- Yellow 1
- Over Colour
- n/a 1
- Over Colour Amount
- absent 1
- Over Colour Pattern
- n/a 1
- Russet
- low-medium 1
- Crunch
- crisp 1
- Juiciness
- dry-medium 1
- Flesh Colour
- Yellowish 1


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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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