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Cornish Pine
type: Dessert
synonyms: Red Ribbed Greening
identification: Medium to large, round conic with noticeable ribbing. Skin base colour is green yellow over which are orange brown flushes and broken red stripes. The skin becomes very greasy at maturity.
characteristics: Cream coloured flesh is soft, rich and aromatic. Pineaple flavour. Coarse grained.
origins: Raised at Exminster, Devon, and believed to be a seedling of Cornish Gilliflower with an unknown pollen parent. First described by Edward A. Bunyard in 1920 in "A Handbook of Hardy Fruits More Commonly Grown in Great Britain." Grown in Devon and Cornwall in the 1930s.
cultivation: Vigorous, spreading spur bearer. Ripens during the first half of the second period.
vulnerabilities: Resistant to scab.
harvest: Ready for harvest in the first half of the fifth period.
pollination group: D
pollination peak: 12
ploidism: Diploid. Self sterile.
harvest period: 5
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