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Greenup's Pippin
Culinary / Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Found in the garden of shoemaker Greenup in Keswick and introduced in the late 1700s by nurserymen Clarke & Atkinson, Keswick. Fruits have tender, yellowish white flesh with a sweet subacid flavour.
- Synonyms:
- American Pippin, Belle de Yorkshire, Councillor, Counseller, Counsellor, Cumberland Favorite, Cumberland Favourite, Dalzell Manse Codlin, Dalzell Manx Codlin, Dunmore Pearmain, Green Rolland, Greenup Pippin, Greenup's Apfel, Greenup's Apple, Greenups Pippin, Greenus's Pippin, New Northern Greening, Oxford Peach, Palmer's Glory, Red Hawthornden, Red Norman Bitter- Sweet, Rolland Green, Sunflower, Walsgrove Wonder, Yorkshire Beauty
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Material held in the Gloucestershire Orchard Trust collection (link to website)
- Material held in the Marcher Apple Network collections (Tredomen)
Accession No.
1921 - 008
- Accession name
- Greenup's Pippin
- Flowering time ›››
- 10th May10% flowering
15th MayFull (80%) flowering 22nd May90% petal fall
- Picking time
- Mid September 1
- Size
- large-very large 1
- Shape
- Globose conical 1
- Height
- 74.23 mm 1
- Width
- 83.73 mm 1
- Ribbing
- medium 1
- Crown
- medium 1
- Ground Colour
- Whitish yellow 1
- Over Colour
- Pink 1
- Over Colour Amount
- very low 1
- Over Colour Pattern
- washed out 1
- Russet
- low 1
- Coarseness
- coarse 1
- Juiciness
- dry-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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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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