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Lucombe's Pine
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Raised in about 1800 by Lucombe, Pince & Co., Exeter. Fruits have tender, yellowish white flesh with a rich, aromatic, pineapple-like flavour.
- Synonyms:
- Lucombe's Pine Apple, Lucombe's Pine-Apple, Pine Apple, Pine Apple Pippin, Pine-Apple, Pine-Apple Pippin
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Shape
- Truncate conical 2
- Size
- medium 2
- Height
- 51.00mm 2
- Width
- 63.00mm 2
- Ribbing
- weak 2
- Ground Colour
- Whitish yellow 2
- Over Colour
- Orange 2
- Russet
- very low 2
- Flesh Colour
- Yellowish 2
Accession No.
1948 - 005
- Accession name
- Lucombe's Pine
- Flowering time ›››
- 9th May10% flowering
13th MayFull (80%) flowering
20th 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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