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Eccleston Pippin
Culinary / Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Raised by Mr Barnes, Head Gardener to the Duke of Westminster at Eaton Hall, Cheshire. It was first described in 1883. Fruits have coarse, but tender flesh with a subacid flavour.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Shape
- Broad globose conical 2
- Size
- medium 2
- Height
- 50.00mm 2
- Width
- 66.00mm 2
- Ribbing
- weak-medium 2
- Ground Colour
- Green 2
- Over Colour
- Pink 2
- Over Colour (Amount)
- low 2
- Over Colour (Pattern)
- striped 2
- Russet
- very low 2
- Coarseness
- coarse 2
- Flesh Colour
- Cream 2
Accession No.
1923 - 115
- Accession name
- Eccleston Pippin
- Flowering time ›››
- 5th May10% flowering
11th MayFull (80%) flowering
19th May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Mid September 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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