Wadhurst Pippin
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Originated in the early 1800s at Wadhurst, Sussex. Fruits have crisp, yellowish flesh with a subacid flavour.
- Synonyms:
- Ney Mi, Ney-Mi, Reinette de Wadhurst, Wadhurst Pepping
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
Accession No.
1945 - 102
- Accession name
- Wadhurst Pippin
- Flowering time ›››
- 5th May10% flowering
10th MayFull (80%) flowering 18th May90% petal fall
- Picking time
- Early October 1
- Size
- large 1
- Shape
- Globose 1
- Height
- 65.20 mm 1
- Width
- 74.08 mm 1
- Ribbing
- strong 1
- Crown
- medium 1
- Ground Colour
- Yellow 1
- Over Colour
- Orange 1
- Over Colour Amount
- absent 1
- Over Colour Pattern
- striped/mottled 1
- Russet
- low 1
- Crunch
- crisp-very crisp 1
- Coarseness
- coarse 1
- Flesh Colour
- Cream 1

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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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