Scarlet Pearmain
Also known as ?French Pippin +42
?French Pippin · Bell's Scarlet · Bell's Scarlet Pearmain · Ecarlate · Ecarlate d'Hiver · Ecarlatine · Englische Scharlach Parmane · Englische scharlach rote Parmane · Englische Scharlach-Parmaene · Englische Scharlachparmaene · Englische Scharlachrote Parmaene · Englische scharlachrothe Parmane · Escarlatine · Hood's Seedling · Hood's Seedling Pippin · Melville Pippin · Oxford Peach · Oxford Peach Apple · Oxford's Peach · Parmaene scarlatto · Parmen krasnii · Parmen Krasnyi · Parmen rosu · Parmen sarlah-rosu · Parmen sharlakhovui · Parmena sarlotova · Parmena szkarlatna · Pearmain Anglaise Ecarlate · Pearmain ecarlate · Pearmain Scarlet · Red Sigles · Safran Krasnii · Scarlet Oxford Peach · Scharlach Parmaene · Scharlach rote Parmane · Scharlachrote Parmaene · Scharlachrote Parmane · Scharlachrothe Parmaene · Scharlachrothe Parmane · Sigler's Red · Sigles Red · Skarbat prios parmen · Sofran rosu de toamna
A dessert apple with yellowish flesh and whitish-yellow skin, truncate-conical in shape, introduced in about 1800; sweet, crisp and firm. Picked in late September.
Origin · England
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Firmness
- firm
- Bite
- crisp
- Texture
- Flesh grain coarse
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Skin greasiness WeakSurface colour RedBackground colour Whitish yellowSurface colour coverage high-very highSurface colour pattern streaked
- Flesh
- Yellowish
- Shape
- Truncate conical
- Size
- mediumWidth 60.50 mmHeight 54.00 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges weak-medium
Origin & family
Where Scarlet Pearmain began
Recorded origin
England
United Kingdom
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- medium
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Truncate conical
- width
- 60.50 mm
- crunch
- crisp
- height
- 54.00 mm
- russet
- low
- ribbing
- weak-medium
- firmness
- firm
- synonyms
- ?French Pippin, Bell's Scarlet, Bell's Scarlet Pearmain, Ecarlate, Ecarlate d'Hiver, Ecarlatine, Englische Scharlach Parmane, Englische scharlach rote Parmane, Englische Scharlach-Parmaene, Englische Scharlachparmaene, Englische Scharlachrote Parmaene, Englische scharlachrothe Parmane, Escarlatine, Hood's Seedling, Hood's Seedling Pippin, Melville Pippin, Oxford Peach, Oxford Peach Apple, Oxford's Peach, Parmaene scarlatto, Parmen krasnii, Parmen Krasnyi, Parmen rosu, Parmen sarlah-rosu, Parmen sharlakhovui, Parmena sarlotova, Parmena szkarlatna, Pearmain Anglaise Ecarlate, Pearmain ecarlate, Pearmain Scarlet, Red Sigles, Safran Krasnii, Scarlet Oxford Peach, Scharlach Parmaene, Scharlach rote Parmane, Scharlachrote Parmaene, Scharlachrote Parmane, Scharlachrothe Parmaene, Scharlachrothe Parmane, Sigler's Red, Sigles Red, Skarbat prios parmen, Sofran rosu de toamna
- coarseness
- coarse
- greasiness
- Weak
- over colour
- Red
- flesh colour
- Yellowish
- ground colour
- Whitish 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.