Sturmer Pippin
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Raised by nurseryman Dillistone at Sturmer, Suffolk, England. First recorded in 1831. Fruits have very firm, fine-textured, juicy flesh with a little subacid and rich aromatic flavour.
- Synonyms:
- Apple Royal, Creech Pearmain, Moxhay, Pearmain de Sturmer, Pepin de Sturmer, Pepin iz Shturmera, Royal, Stur1ner's Pepping, Sturmer, Sturmer Pepping, Sturmer's Pippin, Sturmers Pepping
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Material held in the East of England Apples & Orchards Project
- Parentage:
- Ribston Pippin x Nonpareil
- Mother to:
- Oxford Hoard
- Merton Russet
- King's Acre Pippin
- High View Pippin
- Father to:
- Ball's Pippin
- Merton Pippin
- Shape
- Broad globose conical 2
- Size
- medium 2
- Height
- 51.50mm 2
- Width
- 60.00mm 2
- Ribbing
- medium 2
- Ground Colour
- Green yellow 2
- Over Colour
- Brown 2
- Russet
- very low 2
- Flesh Colour
- Greenish 2
Accession No.
2000 - 091
- Accession name
- Sturmer Pippin
- Flowering time ›››
- 5th May10% flowering
10th MayFull (80%) flowering 16th May90% petal fall
- Picking time
- Late 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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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