Downton Pippin

Malus domestica Borkh. Borkh.

Dessert

Introduced

1806

Origin

Downton Castle, Herefordshire, United Kingdom

Measured Phenotype

Fruit height: 44.1 mm
Fruit width: 53.8 mm

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A small, lemon-yellow dessert apple resembling the Golden Pippin in size, shape and flavor. The flesh is yellowish-white, firm, crisp and juicy with a rich, brisk, vinous and aromatic flavor. Raised by Thomas Andrew Knight at Downton Castle from a deliberate cross between the Isle of Wight Orange Pippin and Golden Pippin; an excellent bearer and valued for both dessert use and cider production.

Flavor & Texture

aromaticfirmcrispjuicy

Best Uses

fresh_eating

Lineage

Parents

Golden Pippin Orange Pippin

Origin & History

Status: commercial
Origin type: deliberate cross
Original breeder: Thomas Andrew Knight

richbriskvinousaromatic

References

UK National Fruit Collection: 1650
Wikidata: Q41776504
Cited authority (Hogg 1851): Knight