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Pig’s Nose Pippin
type: Dessert
identification: Small to medium size and long conic. The skin base colour is yellow with a bright red wash on the sun exposed face. Patches of cinnamon russet and abundantly marked with russet lenticels. The calyx is large and open, set in a wide and shallow basin. The stem is short and stout, set in a shallow and narrow cavity which is heavily russeted.
characteristics: The flesh is cream coloured, fine-grained and crisp. Very juicy, sweet and slightly tart.
uses: dessert
origins: Herefordshire (U.K.) 1884
cultivation: Moderately vigorous, upright-spreading tree. Bears fruit on spurs.
cold storage: Two months.
harvest: In the middle of the fifth period.
pollination group: E
pollination peak: 16
ploidism: Diploid. Self sterile.
cold storage weeks: 8
harvest period: 5
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