Applevariety
King's Acre Pippin
Also known as Cranston's +2
Cranston's · Cranston's Pippin · Ribston Pearmain
A dessert apple with greenish flesh and green-yellow skin striped orange, broad round-conical in shape, first recorded in 1897; aromatic, juicy, crisp and firm. Picked in mid-October.
Released 1899
Taste & texture
- Scent
- aromatic
- Firmness
- firm
- Bite
- crisp
- Juiciness
- juicy
- Texture
- Flesh grain fine
- Flavour
- rich
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour OrangeBackground colour Green yellowSurface colour pattern striped
- Flesh
- Greenish
- Shape
- Broad globose conical
- Size
- medium-largeWidth 72.50 mmHeight 57.50 mm
- Appearance
- high-very highSurface ridges medium-strong
Origin & family
Where King's Acre Pippin began
- Released
- 1899
King's Acre Pippin’s family
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- medium-large
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Broad globose conical
- width
- 72.50 mm
- crunch
- crisp
- height
- 57.50 mm
- russet
- high-very high
- ribbing
- medium-strong
- firmness
- firm
- synonyms
- Cranston's, Cranston's Pippin, Ribston Pearmain
- father to
- Woolbrook Russet
- parentage
- Sturmer Pippin x Ribston Pippin
- coarseness
- fine
- over colour
- Orange
- flesh colour
- Greenish
- ground colour
- Green yellow
- over colour pattern
- striped
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.