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Upton Pyne
Culinary / Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Raised by Pyne of Topsham, Devon. Introduced in 1910. Fruits have firm, rather coarse-textured, juicy flesh with a somewhat acid and fair flavour.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Material held in the Marcher Apple Network collections (Paramor)
Accession No.
1931 - 009
- Accession name
- Upton Pyne
- Flowering time ›››
- 6th May10% flowering
11th MayFull (80%) flowering
20th May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Early October 1
- Size
- large 1
- Shape
- Globose conical 1
- Ribbing
- weak-medium 1
- Crown
- medium 1
- Ground Colour
- Whitish yellow 1
- Over Colour
- Orange 1
- Over Colour Amount
- low-medium 1
- Over Colour Pattern
- striped/mottled 1
- Russet
- very low 1
- Coarseness
- coarse 1
- Flesh Colour
- Yellowish 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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