Applevariety
Lancashire Pippin (Underbarrow)
A cooking and dessert apple with cream flesh and yellow skin, broad round-conical in shape; mildly tart and soft. Picked in mid-September.
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- soft
- Flavour
- subacid
- Used for
- Culinary / Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour flushed orange and bright pinkish red stripesBackground colour greenish yellow
- Flesh
- creamy white
- Shape
- intermediate, truncate-conic, convex
- Size
- mediumFruit width 57-65 mmFruit height 53-61 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges slightly ribbed at eye and on bodyRusset pattern some russet on base
Origin & family
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- subacid
- ribbing
- slightly ribbed at eye and on body
- fruit size
- medium
- fruit shape
- intermediate, truncate-conic, convex
- fruit width
- 57-65 mm
- over colour
- flushed orange and bright pinkish red stripes
- russet type
- some russet on base
- flesh colour
- creamy white
- fruit height
- 53-61 mm
- flesh texture
- soft, slightly coarse
- ground colour
- greenish yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.