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'Sturmer Pippin'
Hybrid parentage' Ribston Pippin' x ' Nonpareil'
Cultivar'Sturmer Pippin'
OriginSturmer, Essex, England, before 1831 [1]

The 'Sturmer Pippin' is a dessert apple cultivar, believed to be a ' Ribston Pippin' and 'Nonpareil' cross.

'Sturmer Pippin' is recorded as being presented to the Horticultural Society (later Royal Horticultural Society) by Ezekiel Dillistone in 1827. [2] The apple takes its name from the village of Sturmer, Essex.

Description

This apple is medium-sized, and has a bright green skin becoming greenish to yellow and flushed red. A good picking time is mid-November to late November . One of the best English keeping apples, 'Sturmer Pippin' became widely grown and exported from Tasmania and New Zealand from the 1890s. [3]

References

  1. ^ National Fruit Collection page
  2. ^ Sanders, R. (2010), The Apple Book, ISBN  978-0-7112-3141-2
  3. ^ Morgan, J. & Richards, A. (Illus. Dowle, E.) (2002), The New Book of Apples, ISBN  978-0-09-188398-0

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
'Sturmer Pippin'
Hybrid parentage' Ribston Pippin' x ' Nonpareil'
Cultivar'Sturmer Pippin'
OriginSturmer, Essex, England, before 1831 [1]

The 'Sturmer Pippin' is a dessert apple cultivar, believed to be a ' Ribston Pippin' and 'Nonpareil' cross.

'Sturmer Pippin' is recorded as being presented to the Horticultural Society (later Royal Horticultural Society) by Ezekiel Dillistone in 1827. [2] The apple takes its name from the village of Sturmer, Essex.

Description

This apple is medium-sized, and has a bright green skin becoming greenish to yellow and flushed red. A good picking time is mid-November to late November . One of the best English keeping apples, 'Sturmer Pippin' became widely grown and exported from Tasmania and New Zealand from the 1890s. [3]

References

  1. ^ National Fruit Collection page
  2. ^ Sanders, R. (2010), The Apple Book, ISBN  978-0-7112-3141-2
  3. ^ Morgan, J. & Richards, A. (Illus. Dowle, E.) (2002), The New Book of Apples, ISBN  978-0-09-188398-0

External links



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