Bringewood Pippin
Malus domestica Borkh. Borkh.
Dessert
A small, round dessert apple with fine yellow skin marked with russet, resembling a flattened Golden Pippin. The flesh is firm, crisp, and sugary with a rich, perfumed flavor, though inclined to be somewhat dry. It season from January to March, and is a hardy though weak-growing tree that succeeds well on paradise stock; it was bred by Thomas Andrew Knight through crossing Golden Pippin with Golden Harvey pollen.
Flavor & Texture
sweetaromaticcrispfirm
Best Uses
dessert
Lineage
Parents
Origin & History
- Status
- commercial
- Origin type
- deliberate cross
- Original breeder
- Thomas Andrew Knight
sugaryaromatic
References
- UK National Fruit Collection
- 750
- Cited authority (Hogg 1851)
- Hort