Applevariety
D'Arcy Spice
Also known as Baddow Pippin +8
Baddow Pippin · Essex Spice · Pepin de Baddow · Spice · Spice Apple · Spring Ribston · Spring Ribston Pippin · Spring Ribstone · Winter Ribston
A dessert apple with greenish flesh and green-yellow skin, oblong in shape; aromatic, juicy, crisp and firm. Picked in late October.
Origin · The Hall, Tolleshunt d'Arcy, Essex
Released 1848
Taste & texture
- Scent
- aromatic
- Firmness
- firm
- Bite
- crisp
- Juiciness
- juicy
- Texture
- Flesh grain fine
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Skin greasiness WeakSurface colour RedBackground colour Green yellow
- Flesh
- Greenish
- Shape
- Oblong
- Size
- mediumWidth 64.00 mmHeight 57.00 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges strong
Origin & family
Where D'Arcy Spice began
Recorded origin
The Hall, Tolleshunt d'Arcy, Essex
- Released
- 1848
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- medium
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Oblong
- width
- 64.00 mm
- crunch
- crisp
- height
- 57.00 mm
- russet
- low
- ribbing
- strong
- firmness
- firm
- synonyms
- Baddow Pippin, Essex Spice, Pepin de Baddow, Spice, Spice Apple, Spring Ribston, Spring Ribston Pippin, Spring Ribstone, Winter Ribston
- coarseness
- fine
- greasiness
- Weak
- over colour
- Red
- flesh colour
- Greenish
- ground colour
- Green yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.