Court of Wick
Also known as Anis Seed +34
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A dessert apple with yellowish flesh and yellow skin, round-conical in shape, introduced in 1790; mildly tart, crisp and rich. Picked in late September.
Origin · Court of Wick, Yatton, Somerset
Released 1790
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- subacid
- Bite
- crisp
- Flavour
- subacid, rich
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour flushed orangeBackground colour pale yellow
- Flesh
- yellow
- Shape
- intermediate, rectangular to truncate-conic, convex
- Size
- mediumFruit width 55-59 mmFruit height 44-47 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges not ribbedRusset pattern dotted
Origin & family
Where Court of Wick began
Recorded origin
Court of Wick, Yatton, Somerset
- Released
- 1790
Court of Wick’s family
2 varieties · 1 recorded linkArrows follow parents → children
Court of Wick
Court of Wick, Yatton, Somerset
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
Golden Pippin → Court of WickParent · Recorded
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- subacid, rich
- ribbing
- not ribbed
- synonyms
- Anis Seed, Anise Seed, Aniseed, Barlow, Court de Wick, Court of Wick Pippin, Court of Wyck, Fry' Kingswick, Kingswick Pippin, Knightwich Pippin, Knightwick, Knightwick Pippin, Pepping van Court of Wick, Pepping von Court of Wick, Philip's Reinette, Phillip's Reinette, Phillips' Reinette, Phillips's Reinette, Rendell's Pippin, Richlieu Pearmain, Rival Golden Pippin, Transparent Pippin, Week's Pippin, Weeks' Pippin, Weeks's Pippin, Wick Pippin, Wick's Pippin, Wood's Huntingdon, Wood's Huntington, Wood's New Transparent, Wood's Transparent, Wood's Transparent Pippin, Woods Huntingdon, Yellow, Yellow Pippin
- parentage
- Golden Pippin x Unknown
- fruit size
- medium
- fruit shape
- intermediate, rectangular to truncate-conic, convex
- fruit width
- 55-59 mm
- over colour
- flushed orange
- russet type
- dotted
- flesh colour
- yellow
- fruit height
- 44-47 mm
- flesh texture
- crisp
- ground colour
- pale yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.