Applevariety
Saint Edmund's Pippin
Also known as Early Golden Russet +7
Early Golden Russet · Saint-Edmund's Pippin · St. Edmonds · St. Edmund's Pippin · St. Edmund's Russet · St. Edmunds · St. Edmunds Pippin · St. Edmunds Russet
A dessert apple with cream flesh and green-yellow skin, broad round-conical in shape; tart, juicy, crisp and firm. Picked in mid-September.
Origin · Bury St. Edmunds, England
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- acid
- Firmness
- firm
- Bite
- crisp
- Juiciness
- juicy
- Texture
- Flesh grain fine
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Skin greasiness WeakSurface colour BrownBackground colour Green yellowSurface colour coverage very low
- Flesh
- Cream
- Shape
- Broad globose conical
- Size
- mediumWidth 60.00 mmHeight 53.50 mm
- Appearance
- high-very highSurface ridges very weak
Origin & family
Where Saint Edmund's Pippin began
Recorded origin
Bury St. Edmunds, England
United Kingdom
Saint Edmund's Pippin’s family
2 varieties · 1 recorded linkArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Saint Edmund's Pippin
Bury St. Edmunds, England, United Kingdom
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
Saint Edmund's Pippin → Benenden EarlyParent · Recorded
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- medium
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Broad globose conical
- width
- 60.00 mm
- crunch
- crisp
- height
- 53.50 mm
- russet
- high-very high
- ribbing
- very weak
- firmness
- firm
- synonyms
- Early Golden Russet, Saint-Edmund's Pippin, St. Edmonds, St. Edmund's Pippin, St. Edmund's Russet, St. Edmunds, St. Edmunds Pippin, St. Edmunds Russet
- mother to
- Benenden Early
- coarseness
- fine
- greasiness
- Weak
- over colour
- Brown
- flesh colour
- Cream
- ground colour
- Green yellow
- over colour amount
- very low
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.