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Twenty Ounce Pippin
type: Culinary, Eating
synonyms: Sometimes called Cabashea which, though it resembles the Twenty Ounce Pippin, is an earlier ripening apple. Often confused with the Cayuga Redstreak which is alternately called the Twenty Ounce, but not Twenty Ounce Pippin.
identification: Large tending to very large, round to round-conic with lightly ribbed faces. The base colour is yellowish, blushed red and striped darker red.
characteristics: The flesh is white, sometime tinged pale yellow. Firm, breaking and coarse-grained.
uses: The flavour varies from above average for eating to quite bland.
origins: Reported by S. Ambrose Beach in "The Apples of New York" (published 1905) to have originated in New York State (U.S.A.) in the early 1800s. Franklin Reuben Eliott lists the Twenty Ounce Pippin in his "The American Fruitgrower's Guide in Orchard and Garden" published in 1859, emphasizing that it is "very distinct from Twenty Ounce or Cayuga Redstreak." There appears to be no record of its parentage.
cold storage: Keeps up to four months.
harvest: Ready for harvest in the first half of the fifth period.
ploidism: Diploid. Self sterile.
cold storage weeks: 16
harvest period: 5
hardiness: 3
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