London Pippin
Also known as Bastard Calvill +55
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A cooking apple with white flesh and yellow skin, broad round-conical in shape; tart, mildly tart, crisp and firm. Picked in mid-October.
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- acidsubacid
- Firmness
- firmtender
- Bite
- crisp
- Flavour
- subacid
- Used for
- Culinary apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour flushed brownish redBackground colour yellow
- Flesh
- greenish white, white inside core
- Shape
- flat to intermediate, conic, convex
- Size
- mediumFruit width 70 mmFruit height 56 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges ribbed on body, prominently at eye
Origin & family
Family tree
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- subacid
- ribbing
- ribbed on body, prominently at eye
- synonyms
- Bastard Calvill, Bastard Kalvil, Bastard-Calvill, Bastard-Calville, Calville de Londres, Calville de Stafa, Calville du Haire, Calville du Roi, Citron d'Hiver, de Londres, Fine Crown Pippin, Five Crown, Five Crown Pippin, Five Crowned Peppin, Five Crowned Pippin, Five-Crown Pippin, Five-Crowned Pippin, Galibro Pippin, Grosse Reinette de Londres, Grune Englischer Calvill, Gruner Englischer Calvill, Jadrnac Londynsky, Kalvil Jioltii, Kalvil korolevskii, Kalvil Limonni, London, London Golden Pippin, London Peppin, London Pepping, London-Pepping, Londoner Grosse Reinette, Londoner Pepping, Londoni Pepin, Londonski pepin, Londynske, Londynsky Jadernac, Lounden Peppen, New London Pippin, New-London Pippin, Old London Pippin, Pepin de Londres, Pepin londonskii, Pepina Londynska, Peppin de Londres, Pippin de Londres, Pomme de Londres, Popina londynska, Poppina di Londra, Reinette de Londres, Royal Somerset, Selvatica di Londra, Statner Calviller, Werderscher Kalvill, White London Pippin, White Pippin, Winter Citronenapfel
- father to
- Juno
- fruit size
- medium
- fruit shape
- flat to intermediate, conic, convex
- fruit width
- 70 mm
- over colour
- flushed brownish red
- flesh colour
- greenish white, white inside core
- fruit height
- 56 mm
- flesh texture
- firm, crisp, tender
- ground colour
- yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.