Applevariety
Eccleston Pippin
A cooking and dessert apple with cream flesh and green skin, broad round-conical in shape; mildly tart. Picked in mid-September.
Origin · Eaton Hall, Cheshire
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- subacid
- Texture
- Flesh grain coarse
- Used for
- Culinary / Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour PinkBackground colour GreenSurface colour coverage lowSurface colour pattern striped
- Flesh
- Cream
- Shape
- Broad globose conical
- Size
- mediumWidth 66.00 mmHeight 50.00 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges weak-medium
Origin & family
Where Eccleston Pippin began
Recorded origin
Eaton Hall, Cheshire
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- medium
- type
- Culinary / Dessert
- shape
- Broad globose conical
- width
- 66.00 mm
- height
- 50.00 mm
- russet
- very low
- ribbing
- weak-medium
- coarseness
- coarse
- over colour
- Pink
- flesh colour
- Cream
- ground colour
- Green
- over colour amount
- low
- over colour pattern
- striped
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.