Elford Pippin
Malus domestica Borkh. Borkh.
Dessert
A medium-sized roundish dessert apple with red-striped skin and yellow-tinged flesh, possessing a crisp, tender texture and brisk, sugary, vinous flavor. In season from October to Christmas, it is highly regarded in the Elford area near Lichfield where it originated, though cultivated chiefly in that locality. The tree is a healthy, vigorous grower and good bearer.
Flavor & Texture
sweetvinousbriskcrisp
Best Uses
fresh_eating
Origin & History
- Status
- heritage
brisksugaryvinous
References
- UK National Fruit Collection
- 1828
- Cited authority (Hogg 1851)
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