Applevariety
Saint Albans Pippin
Also known as Saint Alban' s Pippin +2
Saint Alban' s Pippin · Saint-Alban's Pippin · St. Alban's Pippin
A dessert apple with yellowish flesh and green-yellow skin, flat in shape; mildly tart. Picked in mid-September.
Origin · Kent, England
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- subacid
- Texture
- Flesh grain fine
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Skin greasiness StrongSurface colour RedBackground colour Green yellowSurface colour coverage high-very highSurface colour pattern streaked
- Flesh
- Yellowish
- Shape
- Flat
- Size
- mediumWidth 60.00 mmHeight 50.50 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges absent
Origin & family
Where Saint Albans Pippin began
Recorded origin
Kent, England
United Kingdom
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- medium
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Flat
- width
- 60.00 mm
- height
- 50.50 mm
- russet
- low
- ribbing
- absent
- synonyms
- Saint Alban' s Pippin, Saint-Alban's Pippin, St. Alban's Pippin
- coarseness
- fine
- greasiness
- Strong
- over colour
- Red
- flesh colour
- Yellowish
- ground colour
- Green yellow
- over colour amount
- high-very high
- over colour pattern
- streaked
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.