Ribston Pippin
Also known as Beautiful Pippin +59
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A dessert apple with yellowish flesh and yellow skin, flat in shape; aromatic, juicy, firm and rich. Picked in late September.
Origin · Ribston Hall, Yorkshire, England
Taste & texture
- Scent
- aromatic
- Firmness
- firm
- Juiciness
- juicy
- Texture
- Flesh grain fine
- Flavour
- rich
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Skin greasiness MediumSurface colour OrangeBackground colour YellowSurface colour pattern streaked
- Flesh
- Yellowish
- Shape
- Flat
- Size
- mediumWidth 66.50 mmHeight 55.50 mm
Origin & family
Where Ribston Pippin began
Recorded origin
Ribston Hall, Yorkshire, England
United Kingdom
Ribston Pippin’s family
204 varieties · 216 recorded linksArrows follow parents → children
Ribston Pippin
Ribston Hall, Yorkshire, 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
- medium
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Flat
- width
- 66.50 mm
- height
- 55.50 mm
- russet
- low
- ribbing
- medium
- firmness
- firm
- synonyms
- Beautiful Pippin, Englische Granat Reinette, Englische Granat-Reinette, Englische Granatreinette, Englische Granatrenette, English Granat Reinette, Essex Pippin, Flory of York, Formosa, Formosa Pepping, Formosa Pippin, Glory of York, Granat-Reinette, Granatreinette, Jadrnac Ribstonsky, Kaiser Reinette, Lord Raglan, Nonpareil d'Angleterre, Nonpareille, Nonpareille d'Angleterre, Pepin de Ribston, Pepin Ribston, Pepin Ribstona, Pepina Ribstona, Pomme Granatee, Pomme Granite, Poppina Ribston, Reinette de Traver, Reinette de Travers, Reinette de Traves, Reinette Grenade Anglaise, Ribsten Renett, Ribston, Ribston Orange, Ribston Pepin, Ribston Pepping, Ribston-Pepping, Ribston's Pepping, Ribstone, Ribstone Pippin, Ribstonov Pepin, Ribstonské, Ribstonsky Jadernac, Ridge, Rockhill's Russet, Traver's, Traver's Apple, Traver's Pippin, Traver's Reinette, Travers, Travers Apple, Travers Peppin, Travers Pippin, Travers Reinette, Travers', Travers' Apfel, Travers' Pippin, Travers's, Travers's Apple, Travers's Reinette
- father to
- Freiherr von Berlepsch King's Acre Pippin Laxton's Rearguard Reverend W. Wilks
- mother to
- Sturmer Pippin Jennifer Wastie Cox's Pomona Cox's Orange Pippin Cox's Orange Pippin Red Sport (Potter)
- coarseness
- fine
- greasiness
- Medium
- over colour
- Orange
- flesh colour
- Yellowish
- ground colour
- Yellow
- over colour pattern
- streaked
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.