Applevariety
Cellini
Also known as Celini +11
Celini · Cellini Pippin · Centennial · Chellini · Norfolk Challenger · Philip's Seedling · Phillip's Seedling · Phillips Seedling · Phillips' Seedling · Seedling Peppin · Selling Pippin · Tsellini
A cooking apple with white flesh and whitish-green skin, flat-round in shape, introduced in about 1828; tart, mildly tart, aromatic and juicy. Picked in mid-September.
Origin · Vauxhall, London
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- acidsubacid
- Scent
- aromatic
- Firmness
- soft
- Juiciness
- juicy
- Flavour
- subacid, aromatic
- Used for
- Culinary apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour mottled and streaked redSkin texture smooth greasy, thin, tenderBackground colour greenish yellow
- Flesh
- white, sometimes tinged pink
- Shape
- intermediate, truncate-conic, convex
- Size
- medium to largeFruit width 64-71 mmFruit height 58-64 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges not ribbed
Origin & family
Where Cellini began
Recorded origin
Vauxhall, London
Cellini’s family
8 varieties · 7 recorded linksArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Cellini
Vauxhall, London
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- subacid, aromatic
- ribbing
- not ribbed
- synonyms
- Celini, Cellini Pippin, Centennial, Chellini, Norfolk Challenger, Philip's Seedling, Phillip's Seedling, Phillips Seedling, Phillips' Seedling, Seedling Peppin, Selling Pippin, Tsellini
- father to
- Prince Edward Glebe Gold
- mother to
- James Lawson Duchess of Bedford Exquisite
- parentage
- Nonsuch x Unknown
- fruit size
- medium to large
- fruit shape
- intermediate, truncate-conic, convex
- fruit width
- 64-71 mm
- over colour
- mottled and streaked red
- flesh colour
- white, sometimes tinged pink
- fruit height
- 58-64 mm
- skin texture
- smooth greasy, thin, tender
- flesh texture
- tender, loose
- ground colour
- greenish yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.