Sturmer Pippin
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The Sturmer Pippin is a dessert apple cultivar.
Origin
Parentage believed to be Ribston Pippin and Nonpareil.
Sturmer Pippin is recorded as being presented to the Horticultural Society (later Royal Horticultural Society) by Ezekiel Dillistone in 1827.[1] The apple takes its name from the village of Sturmer, Essex.
Description
This apple is medium sized, has a bright green skin becoming greenish to yellow and flushed red. A good picking time is mid November to late November for season January to April. One of the best English keeping apples Sturmer Pippin became widely grown and exported from Tasmania and New Zealand from the 1890s.[2]
References
- ↑ Sanders, R. (2010), The Apple Book, ISBN 978-0-7112-3141-2
- ↑ Morgan, J. & Richards, A. (Illus. Dowle, E.) (2002), The New Book of Apples, ISBN 978-0-09-188398-0
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