Applevariety
Ross Nonpareil
Also known as French Pippin +4
French Pippin · Lawson Pearmain · Non-Pareille de Ross · Nonpareil Ross · Nonpareille de Ross
A dessert apple with whitish-yellow skin, broad round-conical,-crunch-crisp in shape; aromatic, crisp, firm and dry. Picked in late September.
Origin · Ireland
Released 1819
Taste & texture
- Scent
- aromatic
- Firmness
- firm
- Bite
- crisp
- Texture
- Flesh grain fine
- Flavour
- rich
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour OrangeBackground colour Whitish yellowSurface colour pattern streaked
- Shape
- Broad globose conical
- Size
- mediumWidth 57.00 mmHeight 44.00 mm
- Appearance
- high-very highSurface ridges very weak
Origin & family
Where Ross Nonpareil began
Recorded origin
Ireland
- Released
- 1819
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- medium
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Broad globose conical
- width
- 57.00 mm
- crunch
- crisp
- height
- 44.00 mm
- russet
- high-very high
- ribbing
- very weak
- synonyms
- French Pippin, Lawson Pearmain, Non-Pareille de Ross, Nonpareil Ross, Nonpareille de Ross
- coarseness
- fine
- over colour
- Orange
- ground colour
- Whitish yellow
- over colour pattern
- streaked
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.