Applevariety
Eastbourne Pippin
A dessert apple with white flesh and yellow skin, flat in shape, raised in 1930; sweet and mildly tart. Picked in late August.
Origin · Eastbourne, Sussex
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- subacid
- Texture
- Flesh grain fine
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Background colour Yellow
- Flesh
- White
- Shape
- Flat
- Size
- largeWidth 76.50 mmHeight 53.50 mm
Origin & family
Where Eastbourne Pippin began
Recorded origin
Eastbourne, Sussex
Family tree
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- large
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Flat
- width
- 76.50 mm
- height
- 53.50 mm
- ribbing
- medium
- parentage
- Newtown Pippin x Unknown
- coarseness
- fine
- flesh colour
- White
- ground colour
- Yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.