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Red Ingestrie
type: Eating
identification: Small, round tending to cylindrical. The skin base colour is golden yellow, blushed orange on the sun exposed face and marked with russet lenticels. The stem is short and slender, set in a narrow and moderately deep, russet lined cavity.
characteristics: The flesh is yellow, tender, juicy and brisk. Keeps two months in storage.
uses: An eating apple highly rated by Robert Hogg.
origins: Raised from a seed of Orange Pippin which was pollinated with Golden Pippin by Thomas Andrew Knight in the early 1800s. Grown at Wormsley Grange in Herefordshire. — Orange Pippin x Yellow Pippin, c1800, by T.A. Knight, introduced, 181
notes: A second seed from the same apple was also raised by Thomas Andrew Knight and it became the Yellow Ingestrie.
ploidism: Self sterile.
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