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Saltcote Pippin
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Raised by James Hoad at Rye, Sussex. First recorded in 1918. Received an Award of Merit from the Royal Horticultural Society in 1928. Fruits have firm, slightly juicy flesh with a sweet and good aromatic flavour.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Parentage:
- Ribston Pippin or Radford Beauty x Unknown
- Shape
- Broad globose conical 2
- Size
- medium 2
- Height
- 57.00mm 2
- Width
- 67.00mm 2
- Ribbing
- absent 2
- Ground Colour
- Yellow 2
- Over Colour
- Orange 2
- Over Colour (Pattern)
- streaked 2
- Russet
- very low 2
- Crunch
- crisp 2
- Coarseness
- fine 2
- Flesh Colour
- Cream 2
Accession No.
1926 - 023
- Accession name
- Saltcote Pippin
- Flowering time ›››
- 6th May10% flowering
11th MayFull (80%) flowering
18th 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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