Fall Pippin
Also known as American Fall +27
American Fall · American Fall Pippin · Autumn Pippin · Cat Head · Cobbet's Fall · Cobbet's Fall Pippin · Cobbett's Fall · Cobbett's Fall Pippin · Concombre Ancien · Corbett's Fall Pippin · Corbett's Tall Pippin · de Rateau · Episcopal · Golden Pippin · Holland Pippin · Pepin d'Automne · Philadelphia Pippin · Pound Pippin · Pound Royal · Prince's Large Pippin · Reinette Blanche d'Espagne · Reinnete Blanche d'Espagne · Sudlow's Fall Pippin · Summer Pippin · Van Duym's Pippin · Van Dyn's Pippin · York · York Pippin
A large cooking and dessert apple with green-yellow skin, round-conical in shape, first recorded in 1806; mildly tart, aromatic and firm. Picked in mid-September.
Origin · USA
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- subacid
- Scent
- aromatic
- Firmness
- firm
- Flavour
- subacid, aromatic
- Used for
- Culinary / Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour occasional faint flushBackground colour greenish yellow
- Shape
- intermediate, rectangular to truncate-conic, convex
- Size
- large
- Appearance
- Surface ridges slightly ribbed
Origin & family
Where Fall Pippin began
Recorded origin
USA
United States
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- subacid, aromatic
- ribbing
- slightly ribbed
- synonyms
- American Fall, American Fall Pippin, Autumn Pippin, Cat Head, Cobbet's Fall, Cobbet's Fall Pippin, Cobbett's Fall, Cobbett's Fall Pippin, Concombre Ancien, Corbett's Fall Pippin, Corbett's Tall Pippin, de Rateau, Episcopal, Golden Pippin, Holland Pippin, Pepin d'Automne, Philadelphia Pippin, Pound Pippin, Pound Royal, Prince's Large Pippin, Reinette Blanche d'Espagne, Reinnete Blanche d'Espagne, Sudlow's Fall Pippin, Summer Pippin, Van Duym's Pippin, Van Dyn's Pippin, York, York Pippin
- fruit size
- large
- fruit shape
- intermediate, rectangular to truncate-conic, convex
- over colour
- occasional faint flush
- flesh texture
- moderately firm, fine, tender
- ground colour
- greenish yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.