Cray Pippin
Malus domestica Borkh. Borkh.
Dessert
A small, conical dessert apple with pale yellow skin tinged with red and crisp, sweet, highly-flavored yellow flesh. Ripe in October, it was raised at St. Mary's Cray, Kent by Richard Waring and exhibited to the London Horticultural Society in 1822.
Flavor & Texture
sweetaromaticcrisp
Best Uses
fresh_eating
Origin & History
- Status
- commercial
- Origin type
- chance seedling
- Original breeder
- Richard Waring, Esq.
sweethighly-flavored
References
- UK National Fruit Collection
- 1349
- Cited authority (Hogg 1851)
- Hort