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Winter Pearmain
Culinary / Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Thought to be a very old English variety. Fruits have firm, crisp, yellowish flesh with a sweet, subacid flavour.
- Synonyms:
- Duck's Bill, Ducksbill of Sussex, Englische Konig's Pearmain, English Winter Pearmain, Grange's Pearmain, Grauwe of Blanke Pepping van der Laan, Great Pearmain, Great Pearmaine, Hertfordshire Pearmain, Old Pearmain, Old Winter Pearmain, Paremens, Parmain d'Hiver, Peare-Maine, Pearemaine, Pearmain, Pearmain Anglaise d'Hiver, Pepin Parmain d'Angleterre, Pepin Parmain d'Hiver, Pepin Pearmain d'Angleterre, Pepin Pearmain d'Hiver, Peppin Parmain d'Hiver, Peppin-Parmain d'Hiver, Peremenes, Permein Drui d'Angleterre, Permenes, Reinette tres Tardive, Somerset Apple Royal, Striped Winter, Sussex Duck's Bill, Sussex Winter Pearmain, Winter Pearmain (of Sussex), Winter Pearmean, Winter Queening, Winter Quoining, Winterparmane
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Material held in the Marcher Apple Network collections (Tredomen)
- Mother to:
- Sandringham
- Shape
- Narrow conical 2
- Size
- large 2
- Height
- 70.00mm 2
- Width
- 70.00mm 2
- Ribbing
- strong 2
- Ground Colour
- Yellow 2
- Over Colour
- Red 2
- Over Colour (Pattern)
- streaked 2
- Russet
- very low 2
- Crunch
- crisp 2
- Flesh Colour
- Yellowish 2
Accession No.
1946 - 107
- Accession name
- Winter Pearmain
- Flowering time ›››
- 29th April10% flowering
6th MayFull (80%) flowering 13th 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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
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