Applevariety
Woolbrook Pippin
A dessert apple with white flesh and green-yellow skin, broad round-conical in shape, raised in 1903; sweet, tart, aromatic and crisp. Picked in mid-September.
Origin · Woolbrook Nursery, Sidmouth, Devon
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- acid
- Scent
- aromatic
- Firmness
- firm
- Bite
- crisp
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Skin greasiness WeakSurface colour OrangeBackground colour Green yellowSurface colour pattern striped
- Flesh
- White
- Shape
- Broad globose conical
- Size
- mediumWidth 67.00 mmHeight 55.50 mm
- Appearance
- very lowSurface ridges weak
Origin & family
Where Woolbrook Pippin began
Recorded origin
Woolbrook Nursery, Sidmouth, Devon
Woolbrook Pippin’s family
3 varieties · 2 recorded linksArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Woolbrook Pippin
Woolbrook Nursery, Sidmouth, Devon
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
Cox's Orange Pippin → Woolbrook PippinParent · Recorded
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- medium
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Broad globose conical
- width
- 67.00 mm
- crunch
- crisp
- height
- 55.50 mm
- russet
- very low
- ribbing
- weak
- firmness
- firm
- parentage
- Cox's Orange Pippin x Unknown
- greasiness
- Weak
- over colour
- Orange
- flesh colour
- White
- ground colour
- Green yellow
- over colour pattern
- striped
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.