Downton Pippin
Also known as de Downton +18
de Downton · Downton · Downton Golden Pippin · Downton Pepping · Downton-Pepping · Downton's Pepping · Downtoner Pipping · Elton Golden Pippin · Elton Pippin · Knight's Golden Pippin · Knight's Pippin · Majestic · Pepin Dauntona · Pepin de Downton · Pomme de Downton · Reinette Carmelite · Saint Mary's Pippin · Saint-Mary's Pippin · St. Mary's Pippin
A dessert apple with yellowish flesh and yellow skin, flat-round in shape; sweet, mildly tart, wine-like and crisp. Picked in mid-September.
Origin · Wormsley Grange, Hereford
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- firm
- Bite
- crisp
- Flavour
- vinous, sweet, subacid
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour slightly tinged redBackground colour yellow
- Flesh
- yellowish white
- Shape
- intermediate to flat, rectangular, convex
- Size
- mediumFruit width 51 mmFruit height 44 mm
- Appearance
- Russet pattern dotted with russet
Origin & family
Where Downton Pippin began
Recorded origin
Wormsley Grange, Hereford
Downton Pippin’s family
2 varieties · 1 recorded linkArrows follow parents → children
Downton Pippin
Wormsley Grange, Hereford
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
Golden Pippin → Downton PippinParent · Recorded
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- vinous, sweet, subacid
- synonyms
- de Downton, Downton, Downton Golden Pippin, Downton Pepping, Downton-Pepping, Downton's Pepping, Downtoner Pipping, Elton Golden Pippin, Elton Pippin, Knight's Golden Pippin, Knight's Pippin, Majestic, Pepin Dauntona, Pepin de Downton, Pomme de Downton, Reinette Carmelite, Saint Mary's Pippin, Saint-Mary's Pippin, St. Mary's Pippin
- parentage
- Orange Pippin x Golden Pippin
- fruit size
- medium
- fruit shape
- intermediate to flat, rectangular, convex
- fruit width
- 51 mm
- over colour
- slightly tinged red
- russet type
- dotted with russet
- flesh colour
- yellowish white
- fruit height
- 44 mm
- flesh texture
- firm, crisp
- ground colour
- yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.