Applevariety
Upton Pyne
A cooking and dessert apple with yellowish flesh and whitish-yellow skin, round-conical in shape, introduced in 1910; tart, mildly tart, aromatic and juicy. Picked in early October.
Origin · Topsham, Devon
Released 1910
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- acidsubacid
- Scent
- aromatic
- Firmness
- firm
- Juiciness
- juicy
- Flavour
- subacid, slightly aromatic, pine flavour
- Used for
- Culinary / Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour striped pinkBackground colour golden yellow
- Flesh
- white
- Shape
- conic, convex
- Size
- large
Origin & family
Where Upton Pyne began
Recorded origin
Topsham, Devon
- Released
- 1910
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- tree
- upright growth
- flavour
- subacid, slightly aromatic, pine flavour
- fruit size
- large
- fruit shape
- conic, convex
- over colour
- striped pink
- flesh colour
- white
- flesh texture
- firm
- ground colour
- golden yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.