Applevariety
Greasy Pippin (Northern Ireland)
A dessert apple with white flesh and whitish-yellow skin, broad round-conical in shape; sweet, crisp and firm. Picked in late September.
Origin · Ireland
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Firmness
- firm
- Bite
- crisp
- Flavour
- sweet
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Skin texture very greasyBackground colour golden yellow
- Flesh
- creamy white
- Shape
- flat, rectangular to truncate-conic, convex
- Size
- mediumFruit width 64 mmFruit height 51 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges ribbed on body and at eyeRusset pattern russet dots and veining
Origin & family
Where Greasy Pippin (Northern Ireland) began
Recorded origin
Ireland
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- sweet
- ribbing
- ribbed on body and at eye
- fruit size
- medium
- fruit shape
- flat, rectangular to truncate-conic, convex
- fruit width
- 64 mm
- russet type
- russet dots and veining
- flesh colour
- creamy white
- fruit height
- 51 mm
- skin texture
- very greasy
- flesh texture
- firm, crisp
- ground colour
- golden yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.