Scarlet Pearmain
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Originated in England. Introduced in about 1800 by Bell, land agent at Sion House, Middlesex. Fruits have firm, crisp, coarse, yellowish flesh with a moderately sweet flavour.
Synonyms:
?French Pippin, Bell's Scarlet, Bell's Scarlet Pearmain, Ecarlate, Ecarlate d'Hiver, Ecarlatine, Englische Scharlach Parmane, Englische scharlach rote Parmane, Englische Scharlach-Parmaene, Englische Scharlachparmaene, Englische Scharlachrote Parmaene, Englische scharlachrothe Parmane, Escarlatine, Hood's Seedling, Hood's Seedling Pippin, Melville Pippin, Oxford Peach, Oxford Peach Apple, Oxford's Peach, Parmaene scarlatto, Parmen krasnii, Parmen Krasnyi, Parmen rosu, Parmen sarlah-rosu, Parmen sharlakhovui, Parmena sarlotova, Parmena szkarlatna, Pearmain Anglaise Ecarlate, Pearmain ecarlate, Pearmain Scarlet, Red Sigles, Safran Krasnii, Scarlet Oxford Peach, Scharlach Parmaene, Scharlach rote Parmane, Scharlachrote Parmaene, Scharlachrote Parmane, Scharlachrothe Parmaene, Scharlachrothe Parmane, Sigler's Red, Sigles Red, Skarbat prios parmen, Sofran rosu de toamna
Availability
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
Size
medium 2
Type
Dessert 2
Shape
Truncate conical 2
Height
54.00 mm 2
Width
60.50 mm 2
Ribbing
weak-medium 2
Ground Colour
Whitish yellow 2
Over Colour (Amount)
high-very high 2
Over Colour
Red 2
Over Colour (Pattern)
streaked 2
Russet
low 2
Greasiness
Weak 2
Firmness
firm 2
Crunch
crisp 2
Coarseness
coarse 2
Flesh Colour
Yellowish 2
Accession name
Scarlet Pearmain
Flowering time
3rd May 10% flowering
9th May Full (80%) flowering
16th May 90% petal fall
Picking time
Late September 1
References:
1. NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.
2. Smith, M. (1971) National Apple Register