Applevariety
Merton Pippin
A dessert apple with cream flesh and green skin, flat-round in shape, introduced in 1948; mildly tart. Picked in mid-October.
Origin · John Innes Horticultural Institute, Merton, England
Released 1948
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- subacid
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour RedBackground colour GreenSurface colour pattern striped
- Flesh
- Cream
- Shape
- Flat globose
- Size
- large
Origin & family
Where Merton Pippin began
Recorded origin
John Innes Horticultural Institute, Merton, England
United Kingdom
- Released
- 1948
Merton Pippin’s family
4 varieties · 4 recorded linksArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Merton Pippin
John Innes Horticultural Institute, Merton, England, United Kingdom
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- large
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Flat globose
- parentage
- Cox's Orange Pippin x Sturmer Pippin
- over colour
- Red
- flesh colour
- Cream
- ground colour
- Green
- over colour pattern
- striped
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.