Applevariety
Lucombe's Pine
Also known as Lucombe's Pine Apple +5
Lucombe's Pine Apple · Lucombe's Pine-Apple · Pine Apple · Pine Apple Pippin · Pine-Apple · Pine-Apple Pippin
A dessert apple with yellowish flesh and whitish-yellow skin, truncate-conical in shape, raised in about 1800; aromatic and rich, with a pineapple flavor. Picked in early October.
Origin · Exeter
Taste & texture
- Scent
- aromatic
- Flavour
- pineapplerich
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour OrangeBackground colour Whitish yellow
- Flesh
- Yellowish
- Shape
- Truncate conical
- Size
- mediumWidth 63.00 mmHeight 51.00 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges weak
Origin & family
Where Lucombe's Pine began
Recorded origin
Exeter
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- medium
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Truncate conical
- width
- 63.00 mm
- height
- 51.00 mm
- russet
- very low
- ribbing
- weak
- synonyms
- Lucombe's Pine Apple, Lucombe's Pine-Apple, Pine Apple, Pine Apple Pippin, Pine-Apple, Pine-Apple Pippin
- over colour
- Orange
- flesh colour
- Yellowish
- ground colour
- Whitish yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.