Pig's Nose Pippin
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Thought to have originated in Hereford, England. Described in 1884. Fruits have fine, crisp flesh with a sweet flavour.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Material held in Tidnor Wood National Collection® of Malus (Cider making)
- Material held in the Marcher Apple Network collections (Paramor)
- Material held in the Marcher Apple Network collections (Westhope)
- Shape
- Globose conical 2
- Size
- medium 2
- Height
- 38.00mm 2
- Width
- 51.00mm 2
- Ribbing
- weak 2
- Ground Colour
- Yellow 2
- Over Colour
- Orange 2
- Over Colour (Pattern)
- striped 2
- Russet
- low 2
- Crunch
- crisp 2
- Coarseness
- fine 2
- Flesh Colour
- Cream 2
Accession No.
1945 - 179
- Accession name
- Pig's Nose Pippin
- Flowering time ›››
- 8th May10% flowering
14th MayFull (80%) flowering 22nd May90% petal fall
- Picking time
- Mid October 1

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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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