Lemon Pippin
Also known as Englischer Quittenapfel +31
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A cooking and dessert apple with cream flesh and green-yellow skin, round-conical in shape; tart, aromatic, crisp and firm. Picked in early October.
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- acid
- Scent
- aromatic
- Firmness
- firm
- Bite
- crisp
- Flavour
- acid
- Used for
- Culinary / Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Background colour yellow
- Flesh
- greenish white
- Shape
- tall, truncate-conic, convex, often a large protuberance at stalk
- Size
- mediumFruit width 61 mmFruit height 66 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges not ribbedRusset pattern dotted
Origin & family
Lemon Pippin’s family
3 varieties · 2 recorded linksArrows follow parents → children
Lemon Pippin
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
Golden Delicious → Lemon PippinParent · Recorded
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- acid
- ribbing
- not ribbed
- synonyms
- Englischer Quittenapfel, Englischer Winter Quitten, Englischer Winter Quittenapfel, Englischer Winter-Quittenapfel, Englischer Winterquittenapfel, Kirk's Lemon Pippin, Kirke's Lemon Pippin, Kirkes Lemon Pippin, Konigin Sophien's Afpel, Konigin Sophienapfel, Konigin Sophiens, Konigin Sophiens Apfel, Konigin Sophiensapfel, Lemon, Limon de Galles, Limon de Galles Pippin, Limonen Reinette, Limonien Apfel, Pepin Lemon des Galles, Pepin Limon de Galles, Pudding Apple, Quince, Quince Appel, Quince Apple, Reine Sophie, Reinette de Madere, Reinette Limon de Galles, Reinette von Madeira, Sophia, Verte de Madere, Waliser Limonen Pepping, Winter Queen
- parentage
- Sport of Golden Delicious
- fruit size
- medium
- fruit shape
- tall, truncate-conic, convex, often a large protuberance at stalk
- fruit width
- 61 mm
- russet type
- dotted
- flesh colour
- greenish white
- fruit height
- 66 mm
- flesh texture
- firm, crisp
- ground colour
- yellow
Other apple varieties
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Lemon Pippin apple, cross-sectioned. NFC's description of the apple is: "Thought to be English or possibly of Norman origin.