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Christmas Pippin
type: Dessert
identification: Medium size, round tending to conic. The base colour is golden yellow, washed bright red on the sun exposed face and marked with scattered richer red striping. Light tan-coloured lenticels on the sun-washed face. The calyx is closed, medium size with long petals and set in a shallow, wide, ribbed basin. The stem is long, somewhat slender and set in a funnel shaped cavity which is russetted with rays often extending over the shoulder.
characteristics: The flesh is pale yellowish. Crisp, juicy. Sweet. Honey-flavoured and aromatic.
origins: A foundling apple tree discovered by horticulturalist Geoffrey Rowson growing along the M5 motorway near Somerset (Britain) in early September 2003, possibly the offspring resulting from an orchard which was at one time located nearby. Encouraged by the texture, flavour and crispness of the apples, he took cuttings of the tree in early 2004 which were grafted to root stock by nurseryman Nick Dunn of Frank Matthews Nursery Ltd. in Tenbury Wells in Worcestershire in 2005. The grafted trees fruited in 2008. Released in 2010.
cultivation: Vigorous. Needs to be thinned at fruit set to maintain size.
cold storage: Keeps up to four months.
vulnerabilities: Resistant to scab.
harvest: Early in the fifth period.
pollination group: D
pollination peak: 12
ploidism: Diploid. Self sterile.
cold storage weeks: 20
harvest period: 5
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