Saint Edmund's Pippin
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Raised by R. Harvey at Bury St. Edmunds, England. Recorded in 1875. It received a First Class Certificate from the Royal Horticultural Society in 1875. Fruits have moderately firm, juicy, slightly acid flesh with good flavour.
- Synonyms:
- Early Golden Russet, Saint-Edmund's Pippin, St. Edmonds, St. Edmund's Pippin, St. Edmund's Russet, St. Edmunds, St. Edmunds Pippin, St. Edmunds Russet
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Material held in the East of England Apples & Orchards Project
- Material held in the Marcher Apple Network collections (Tredomen)
- Material held in the Marcher Apple Network collections (Ffordd-fawr)
- Mother to:
- Benenden Early
- Shape
- Broad globose conical 2
- Size
- medium 2
- Height
- 53.50mm 2
- Width
- 60.00mm 2
- Ribbing
- very weak 2
- Ground Colour
- Green yellow 2
- Over Colour
- Brown 2
- Over Colour (Amount)
- very low 2
- Russet
- high-very high 2
- Greasiness
- Weak 2
- Crunch
- crisp 2
- Coarseness
- fine 2
- Flesh Colour
- Cream 2
Accession No.
1977 - 161
- Accession name
- Saint Edmund's Pippin (LA 73A)
- Flowering time ›››
- 2nd May10% flowering
7th MayFull (80%) flowering 13th May90% petal fall
- Picking time
- Mid September 1


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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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