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New Rock Pippin
Malus domestica Borkh. Borkh.
Dessert
Measured Phenotype
- Fruit height
- 44.0 mm
- Fruit width
- 57.0 mm
source: NFC
source: NFC
Each value is the highest-precedence :Assertion attached to this cultivar; full provenance (year, evidence type, confidence) is preserved in the graph.
Medium-sized, round dessert apple with dull green and brownish-red russet-covered skin. Flesh is yellow, firm, sweet, rich, and perfumed with anise flavor. In use from January to May, valued as a late winter variety of first-rate quality.
Flavor & Texture
sweetricharomaticfirm
Best Uses
fresh_eatingdessert
Origin & History
- Status
- commercial
- Origin type
- open pollinated seedling
- Original breeder
- William Pleasance
- First introduced
- 1821
sweetrichperfumed
References
- UK National Fruit Collection
- 4213
- Wikidata
- Q41779617
- Cited authority (Hogg 1851)
- Hort