Sturmer Pippin
Also known as Apple Royal +11
Apple Royal · Creech Pearmain · Moxhay · Pearmain de Sturmer · Pepin de Sturmer · Pepin iz Shturmera · Royal · Stur1ner's Pepping · Sturmer · Sturmer Pepping · Sturmer's Pippin · Sturmers Pepping
A dessert apple with greenish flesh and green-yellow skin, broad round-conical in shape, first recorded in 1831; mildly tart, aromatic, juicy and firm. Picked in late October.
Origin · Sturmer, Suffolk, England
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- subacid
- Scent
- aromatic
- Firmness
- firm-very firm
- Juiciness
- juicy
- Flavour
- rich
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour BrownBackground colour Green yellow
- Flesh
- Greenish
- Shape
- Broad globose conical
- Size
- mediumWidth 60.00 mmHeight 51.50 mm
Origin & family
Where Sturmer Pippin began
Recorded origin
Sturmer, Suffolk, England
United Kingdom
Sturmer Pippin’s family
8 varieties · 8 recorded linksArrows follow parents → children
Sturmer Pippin
Sturmer, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
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On the label
Produce label codes recorded for Sturmer Pippin
Organic labels add a leading 9.
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- medium
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Broad globose conical
- width
- 60.00 mm
- height
- 51.50 mm
- russet
- very low
- ribbing
- medium
- firmness
- firm-very firm
- synonyms
- Apple Royal, Creech Pearmain, Moxhay, Pearmain de Sturmer, Pepin de Sturmer, Pepin iz Shturmera, Royal, Stur1ner's Pepping, Sturmer, Sturmer Pepping, Sturmer's Pippin, Sturmers Pepping
- father to
- Ball's Pippin Merton Pippin
- mother to
- Oxford Hoard Merton Russet King's Acre Pippin High View Pippin
- parentage
- Ribston Pippin x Nonpareil
- over colour
- Brown
- flesh colour
- Greenish
- ground colour
- Green yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.