'Sturmer Pippin' | |
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Hybrid parentage | ' Ribston Pippin' x ' Nonpareil' |
Cultivar | 'Sturmer Pippin' |
Origin | Sturmer, 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.
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]
'Sturmer Pippin' | |
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Hybrid parentage | ' Ribston Pippin' x ' Nonpareil' |
Cultivar | 'Sturmer Pippin' |
Origin | Sturmer, 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.
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]