Applevariety
Bow Hill Pippin
Also known as Bow Hill +4
Bow Hill · Bow-Hill Pippin · Bowhill Pippin · Pepin Bau Khill · Pepin Bow Hill
A dessert apple with yellowish flesh and yellow skin, flat-round in shape, introduced in about 1893; sweet, aromatic, juicy and crisp. Picked in early October.
Origin · Bow Hill, Maidstone, Kent
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Scent
- aromatic
- Firmness
- firm
- Bite
- crisp
- Juiciness
- juicy
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour OrangeBackground colour YellowSurface colour coverage lowSurface colour pattern striped
- Flesh
- Yellowish
- Shape
- Flat globose
- Size
- mediumWidth 60.00 mmHeight 50.00 mm
- Appearance
- very low
Origin & family
Where Bow Hill Pippin began
Recorded origin
Bow Hill, Maidstone, Kent
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- medium
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Flat globose
- width
- 60.00 mm
- crunch
- crisp
- height
- 50.00 mm
- russet
- very low
- firmness
- firm
- synonyms
- Bow Hill, Bow-Hill Pippin, Bowhill Pippin, Pepin Bau Khill, Pepin Bow Hill
- over colour
- Orange
- flesh colour
- Yellowish
- ground colour
- Yellow
- over colour amount
- low
- over colour pattern
- striped
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.