Adam's Pearmain - Thomas Fruit Trees

Adam’s Pearmain

Price range: 26,50 € through 59,75 €

Adams’ Pearmain is a popular Victorian-era English apple with a distinctive ‘pearmain’ shape.

Choose your tree form

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

Half-standard – 1 to 1.5 m stem

Low-stem tree – approx. 60 cm stem

Standard tree – 1.8 m stem and over

Apple rootstock options

Bittenfelder – approx. 6 m mature height

EM9 – approx. 2.5 m mature height

M116 – approx. 4 m mature height

MM111 – approx. 4 m mature height

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Adams’ Pearmain is a well-known traditional English apple variety of the Victorian era which remains popular today.

It is known for its rich nutty flavour, and was rated by the Victorian writer Hogg as “A dessert apple of first-rate quality“.

Variety characteristics

Variety origin

Old English dessert apple, presented in 1826 to the Horticultural Society of London under the name Norfolk Pippin, with its origin debated between Norfolk and Herefordshire.

Origin

Period of origin

USDA zone

Flowering

Harvest period

Eating / keeping period

Use

Sweetness / acidity

Disease resistance

Self-fertility

Pollinator value

Ploidy

Origin and identity

Parentage

Parentage unknown

Synonyms

Norfolk Pippin, Hanging Pearmain, Matchless, Norfolk Russet, Adam's Reinette, Winter Striper Pearmain

Growth and adaptation

Vigour and habit

Moderately vigorous, spreading habit, partly tip-bearing, early bearing, tendency to biennial bearing with age

Disease behaviour

Scab

Fairly resistant / partial resistance

Powdery mildew

Possibly susceptible

Canker