Our Variety Assessment

Its strengths, growing requirements and the conditions in which it performs best.

Golden Pippin is a very old English cultivar valued for the rich flavour of its small golden apples. The firm, crisp flesh is sweet, fruity and gently lemon-like. It is useful for fresh eating, juice, cooking and cider. We recommend it to enthusiasts of aromatic heritage apples. Despite its late harvest, the fruit has a relatively short storage life.

Golden Pippin

Price range: 26,50 € through 59,75 €

One of the oldest English apples, used for cooking and eating, with a fruity lemon-like flavour.

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1 year old grafted tree – approx. 1–2 m

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Bittenfelder – approx. 6 m mature height

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SKU: 4317 Categories: Apple trees, Eating apple trees

Description

Golden Pippin is a versatile traditional English apple. It can be used for eating fresh, and the apples have a pronounced fruity flavour with a hint of lemon.

The strong flavour also makes Golden Pippin an excellent variety for juicing, and the apples are useful in the kitchen for baking.

The apples ripen in late October but are best used within a few weeks as they do not keep.

Golden Pippin is one of the oldest apple varieties known in England, dating back to the 17th century.

Variety characteristics

Variety origin

Very old English variety probably originating from Parham Park, near Arundel in Sussex, already described by Parkinson in 1629.

Origin

Period of origin

USDA zone

Flowering

Eating / keeping period

Use

Sweetness / acidity

Disease resistance

Self-fertility

Pollinator value

Ploidy

Origin and identity

Synonyms

English Golden Pippin, Reinette d’Angleterre, Pepin d’Or d’Angleterre, Small Golden Pippin, Old Golden Pippin

Growth and adaptation

Vigour and habit

Moderately vigorous, upright to spreading habit, spur-bearing

Pollination

Compatible pollinating varieties

For reliable fruit set, plant at least one variety with a compatible flowering period nearby. Flowering period: 2 - early.

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Additional variety information for Golden Pippin is provided in partnership with Orange Pippin.

Golden Pippin

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