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Old Rock Pippin
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
Accession No.
1981 - 148
Received by the National Fruit Trials in 1981 from Mrs A. Brodie, Meare, near Glastonbury, Somerset.
- Accession name
- Old Rock Pippin
- Flowering time ›››
- 5th May10% flowering
8th MayFull (80%) flowering
17th May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Mid September 1
- Size
- small 1
- Shape
- Flat globose 1
- Ribbing
- weak 1
- Crown
- very weak 1
- Ground Colour
- Whitish green 1
- Over Colour
- Red 1
- Over Colour Amount
- medium 1
- Over Colour Pattern
- striped/mottled 1
- Russet
- low 1
- Greasiness
- 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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
Design: Chris Turnbull, September 2019