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Lemon Pippin
Culinary / Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Thought to be English or possibly of Norman origin. Fruits have firm, coarse-textured, dry, slightly acid flesh with a faint aromatic flavour.
- Synonyms:
- Englischer Quittenapfel, Englischer Winter Quitten, Englischer Winter Quittenapfel, Englischer Winter-Quittenapfel, Englischer Winterquittenapfel, Kirk's Lemon Pippin, Kirke's Lemon Pippin, Kirkes Lemon Pippin, Konigin Sophien's Afpel, Konigin Sophienapfel, Konigin Sophiens, Konigin Sophiens Apfel, Konigin Sophiensapfel, Lemon, Limon de Galles, Limon de Galles Pippin, Limonen Reinette, Limonien Apfel, Pepin Lemon des Galles, Pepin Limon de Galles, Pudding Apple, Quince, Quince Appel, Quince Apple, Reine Sophie, Reinette de Madere, Reinette Limon de Galles, Reinette von Madeira, Sophia, Verte de Madere, Waliser Limonen Pepping, Winter Queen
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Parentage:
- Sport of Golden Delicious
Accession No.
1951 - 229
- Accession name
- Lemon Pippin
- Flowering time ›››
- 10th May10% flowering
15th MayFull (80%) flowering 24th May90% petal fall
- Picking time
- Early October 1
- Size
- medium 1
- Shape
- Globose conical 1
- Height
- 53.61 mm 1
- Width
- 62.60 mm 1
- Ribbing
- weak-medium 1
- Crown
- absent 1
- Ground Colour
- Green 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
- Cream 1


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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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