Golden Pippin

Malus domestica Borkh. Borkh.

Culinary / Dessert

Introduced

1620

Origin

Parham Park, near Arundel, in Sussex, United Kingdom

Measured Phenotype

Brix: 12.7 °Bx
Titratable acidity: 6.01 g/L
Juice pH: 3.40
Fruit height: 64.0 mm
Fruit width: 70.0 mm

Each value is the highest-precedence :Assertion attached to this cultivar; full provenance (year, evidence type, confidence) is preserved in the graph.

A small, roundish apple with rich golden skin, russety dots, and pearly specks. The flesh is yellow, firm, crisp, very juicy and sugary with a brisk, vinous, and particularly fine flavor. One of the oldest and most highly esteemed English dessert apples, in season from November to April; also excellent for cider. The tree is vigorous, does not attain great size, and is an excellent bearer.

Flavor & Texture

aromaticsubacidjuicy

Best Uses

fresh_eating

3 historical watercolors from the USDA Pomological Watercolor Collection (1886–1942) included in the gallery above. Public domain.

Lineage

Offspring

Court of Wick Dobbs's Kernel Golden Pippin Downton Pippin Elford Golden Pippin Yellow Ingestrie Grange (1)Bringewood Pippin Kirke's Golden Pippin May Beauty Mollet's Guernsey Pippin Pitmaston Golden Pippin Red Ingestrie Scarlet Golden Pippin Pitmaston Golden Wreath

Origin & History

Status: heritage
Origin type: chance seedling
Original breeder: Mrs. Beam

subacidcrisptender

References

USDA-NPGS: PI 590129
UK National Fruit Collection: 499
Wikidata: Q41777564
Cited authority (Hogg 1851): Evelyn