Fearn's Pippin

Malus domestica Borkh. Borkh.

Dessert

Introduced

1780

Origin

Fulham, garden of Mr. Bagley, United Kingdom

Measured Phenotype

Fruit height: 51.0 mm
Fruit width: 64.0 mm

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Fearn's Pippin is a medium, flat dessert apple with pale yellow skin, dark crimson flush, and crisp, aromatic, yellowish flesh. Raised at Fulham before 1780, it is an excellent old sort that keeps well and remains in season from November to March.

Flavor & Texture

sweetaromaticcrisp

Best Uses

cookingfresh_eating

Lineage

Offspring

George Neal

Origin & History

Status: heritage
Origin type: chance seedling

aromaticcrisp

References

UK National Fruit Collection: 1990
Wikidata: Q41776950