Red Ingestrie
Malus domestica Borkh. Borkh.
Dessert
Red Ingestrie is a small, ovate dessert apple with clear bright yellow skin mottled red on the sunny side, raised by Thomas Andrew Knight around 1800 from Orange Pippin (seed) and Golden Pippin (pollen). The flesh is yellowish, firm, juicy, and highly flavored, in use October through November. The original trees remain at Wormsley Grange, Herefordshire.
Flavor & Texture
highly_flavoredfirmjuicy
Best Uses
dessertfresh_eating
Lineage
Parents
Origin & History
- Status
- commercial
- Origin type
- deliberate cross
- Original breeder
- Thomas Andrew Knight
highly flavored
References
- UK National Fruit Collection
- 5043
- Cited authority (Hogg 1851)
- Hort