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Pitmaston Pineapple
type: Cider, Dessert, Juice
synonyms: Ananas, Pine Apple, Pineapple, Pineapple Pippin, Pitmaston Pineapple, Radcliffe’s Nonpareil, Reinette d’Ananas
identification: Small, round conic and one side is often higher than the other. The base colour is green maturing to yellow, almost entirely covered with a rough, tawny russet, usually in patches. The stem is medium length, somewhat stout and set in a somewhat shallow and open cavity. The calyx is small and tightly closed, set in a shallow, open basin which is often lightly ribbed.
characteristics: The flesh is creamy yellow, tender, juicy and sweet with a nutty, honeyed/musky flavour and hints of pineapple tartness.
uses: Dessert apple also makes excellent juice. Also used for sweetness and flavour in the making of hard cider.
origins: An open-pollinated seedling of Golden Pippin raised by Mr. White, steward to Thomas Foley at Witley Court in Worcestershire (U.K.) during the late 1700s. It was later taken on and marketed under the name of Pitmaston Pineapple by fruit breeder John Williams of Pitmaston House in Worcestershire who staged the first showing of this apple at the Horticultural Society of London in 1845.
cultivation: Moderately vigorous, upright spreading tree. Bears fruit on spurs. Produces moderate crops every other year.
cold storage: Up to three months but tends to go mealy beyond that.
vulnerabilities: Resistant to scab.
harvest: In the first half of the fifth period.
pollination group: D
pollination peak: 12
ploidism: Diploid. Self sterile.
cold storage weeks: 12
harvest period: 5
hardiness: 6
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