USDA-NPGS
Stone Pippin
Malus domestica Borkh. Borkh.
Dual Purpose
Measured Phenotype
- Brix
- 12.4 °Bx
source: GRIN
Each value is the highest-precedence :Assertion attached to this cultivar; full provenance (year, evidence type, confidence) is preserved in the graph.
A below-medium-sized oblong Norfolk apple with pale green skin turning pale yellow. The white flesh is firm, breaking, brisk, sweet and perfumed. An excellent long-keeping culinary apple also useful for the dessert, in use from November to July; highly valued in Norwich markets.
Flavor & Texture
brisksweetfirmcrispjuicy
Best Uses
fresh_eating
Origin & History
- Status
- commercial
- Known by
- ≥ 1850
briskly and pleasantly flavoredfirmcrispjuicy
References
- USDA-NPGS
- PI 133750
- UK National Fruit Collection
- 562
- Cited authority (Hogg 1851)
- Hort