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Bedminster Pippin
type: Dessert
identification: Small, round and flattened tending to round, usually lopsided and irregular. It is most often faintly angular on the body and lightly ribbed at the eye.The skin is greenish yellow maturing to golden with a light flush on the sun exposed face. There is a netting of brownish russet radiating out from the eye basin. The lenticels are pronounced and star shaped. The texture is rough. A medium length, medium thickness stem is set in a lightly funnel shaped, russeted cavity. The eye is open and moderately large in a wide and deep basin.
characteristics: The flesh is pale cream coloured, coarse textured, and soft, almost woolly. Sweet tart.
uses: Dessert
origins: Possibly a heritage variety originating in Gloucestershire (UK), it was received by the National Fruit Collection in Brogdale in 1952
cultivation: Vigorous. Bears fruit on tips. Ready for harvest in the middle of the first period. Disease:
pollination group: E
pollination peak: 18
ploidism: Self sterile. Group E. Day 18.
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