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Cambusnethan Pippin
Culinary / Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Raised in about 1750 either by Paton the gardener at Cambusnethan House, Stirlingshire, Scotland or at the Cambusnethan Monastery. Fruits have fine textured flesh with little juice and a sweet, faintly perfumed flavour.
- Synonyms:
- Cambusneathan, Cambusneathan Pippin, Cambusnethan, Cambusnethan Apfel, Hollow Snout, Scotch Winter Red Streak, Scotch Winter Redstreak, Watch Apple, Winter Red Streak, Winter Red-Streak, Winter Redstreak
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Shape
- Flat 2
- Size
- small-medium 2
- Ribbing
- absent 2
- Ground Colour
- Green yellow 2
- Over Colour
- Orange 2
- Over Colour (Amount)
- low 2
- Over Colour (Pattern)
- striped 2
- Russet
- very low 2
- Crunch
- crisp 2
- Flesh Colour
- Greenish 2
Accession No.
1921 - 088
- Accession name
- Cambusnethan Pippin
- Flowering time ›››
- 10th May10% flowering
15th MayFull (80%) flowering
24th May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Mid September 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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