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Nutmeg Pippin
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Origin unknown but described in 1920. Fruits have crisp, pale yellow, juicy flesh with a pleasant flavour.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Shape
- Conical 2
- Size
- medium 2
- Height
- 51.00mm 2
- Width
- 51.00mm 2
- Ribbing
- strong 2
- Ground Colour
- Whitish yellow 2
- Over Colour
- Brown 2
- Russet
- high-very high 2
- Crunch
- crisp 2
- Flesh Colour
- Yellowish 2
Accession No.
1929 - 026
- Accession name
- Nutmeg Pippin
- Flowering time ›››
- 3rd May10% flowering
9th MayFull (80%) flowering
16th 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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