Ball's Pippin

Measured Phenotype

Fruit height

64.0 mm

source: NFC

Fruit width

78.0 mm

source: NFC

Each value is the highest-precedence :Assertion attached to this cultivar; full provenance (year, evidence type, confidence) is preserved in the graph.

Ball's Pippin is an English dessert apple crossed from Cox Orange and Sturmer Pippin, featuring green-yellow skin with red flush and russet. The flesh is white, juicy, sweet and aromatic, and the tree is notably vigorous. It received an Award of Merit from the RHS in 1923.

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Best Uses

Lineage

Origin & History

Origin type

deliberate cross

Known by

≥ 1920

References

UK National Fruit Collection

307

Wikidata

Q41775293