Cultivar 'Sturmer Pippin' | Higher classification Apple | |
Hybrid parentage 'Ribston Pippin' x 'Nonpareil' Origin Sturmer, Suffolk, England, before 1831 Similar Upton Pyne apple, Cornish Aromatic, Cornish Gilliflower, Allington Pippin, Cripps Red | ||
Apple variety sturmer pippin late october
The 'Sturmer Pippin' is a dessert apple cultivar, believed to be a 'Ribston Pippin' and 'Nonpareil' cross.
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'Sturmer Pippin' is recorded as being presented to the Horticultural Society (later Royal Horticultural Society) by Ezekiel Dillistone in 1827. The apple takes its name from the village of Sturmer, Essex.
Apple variety sturmer pippin
Description
This apple is medium-sized, and has a bright green skin becoming greenish to yellow and flushed red. A good picking time is mid-November to late November . One of the best English keeping apples, 'Sturmer Pippin' became widely grown and exported from Tasmania and New Zealand from the 1890s.
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