Winter Pearmain
Also known as Duck's Bill +35
Duck's Bill · Ducksbill of Sussex · Englische Konig's Pearmain · English Winter Pearmain · Grange's Pearmain · Grauwe of Blanke Pepping van der Laan · Great Pearmain · Great Pearmaine · Hertfordshire Pearmain · Old Pearmain · Old Winter Pearmain · Paremens · Parmain d'Hiver · Peare-Maine · Pearemaine · Pearmain · Pearmain Anglaise d'Hiver · Pepin Parmain d'Angleterre · Pepin Parmain d'Hiver · Pepin Pearmain d'Angleterre · Pepin Pearmain d'Hiver · Peppin Parmain d'Hiver · Peppin-Parmain d'Hiver · Peremenes · Permein Drui d'Angleterre · Permenes · Reinette tres Tardive · Somerset Apple Royal · Striped Winter · Sussex Duck's Bill · Sussex Winter Pearmain · Winter Pearmain (of Sussex) · Winter Pearmean · Winter Queening · Winter Quoining · Winterparmane
A cooking and dessert apple with yellowish flesh and yellow skin, narrow conical in shape; sweet, mildly tart, crisp and firm. Picked in early October.
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- firm
- Bite
- crisp
- Used for
- Culinary / Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour RedBackground colour YellowSurface colour pattern streaked
- Flesh
- Yellowish
- Shape
- Narrow conical
- Size
- largeWidth 70.00 mmHeight 70.00 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges strong
Origin & family
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- large
- type
- Culinary / Dessert
- shape
- Narrow conical
- width
- 70.00 mm
- crunch
- crisp
- height
- 70.00 mm
- russet
- very low
- ribbing
- strong
- firmness
- firm
- synonyms
- Duck's Bill, Ducksbill of Sussex, Englische Konig's Pearmain, English Winter Pearmain, Grange's Pearmain, Grauwe of Blanke Pepping van der Laan, Great Pearmain, Great Pearmaine, Hertfordshire Pearmain, Old Pearmain, Old Winter Pearmain, Paremens, Parmain d'Hiver, Peare-Maine, Pearemaine, Pearmain, Pearmain Anglaise d'Hiver, Pepin Parmain d'Angleterre, Pepin Parmain d'Hiver, Pepin Pearmain d'Angleterre, Pepin Pearmain d'Hiver, Peppin Parmain d'Hiver, Peppin-Parmain d'Hiver, Peremenes, Permein Drui d'Angleterre, Permenes, Reinette tres Tardive, Somerset Apple Royal, Striped Winter, Sussex Duck's Bill, Sussex Winter Pearmain, Winter Pearmain (of Sussex), Winter Pearmean, Winter Queening, Winter Quoining, Winterparmane
- mother to
- Sandringham
- over colour
- Red
- flesh colour
- Yellowish
- ground colour
- Yellow
- over colour pattern
- streaked
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Winter Pearmain apple, cross-sectioned. Synonyms: Duck's Bill, Ducksbill of Sussex