Darling Pippin
Malus domestica Borkh. Borkh.
Dessert
A medium-sized dessert apple with bright lemon-yellow skin embedded with pearly specks. The flesh is firm, crisp, juicy, and sugary with a pleasant sub-acid flavor. An old English variety documented from 1665, in use from November to January.
Flavor & Texture
sweetsubacidsugaryfirmcrispjuicy
Best Uses
fresh_eatingdessert
Origin & History
- Status
- heritage
- Origin type
- found wilding
sugarysubacid
References
- UK National Fruit Collection
- 1464
- Cited authority (Hogg 1851)
- Lind