Fall Pippin

Fall Pippin, painted by Royal Charles Steadman in 1926 for the US Department of Agriculture. Royal Charles Steadman. U.S. Department of Agriculture Pomological Watercolor Collection. Rare and Special Collections, National Agricultural Library, Beltsville, MD 20705. Source; public domain.

Origin: United States, by 1806
Parentage: Parents unknown
Uses: Dessert, Cooking
Picked: September, in Brogdale, Kent (the National Fruit Collection)
Skin: ground colour greenish yellow; over-colour occasional faint flush
Flavour: Subacid and aromatic
Ploidy: Diploid
Also called: American Fall; American Fall Pippin; Autumn Pippin; Cat Head; Cobbet's Fall; Cobbet's Fall Pippin; Cobbett's Fall; Cobbett's Fall Pippin; Concombre Ancien; Corbett's Fall Pippin; Corbett's Tall Pippin; de Rateau; Episcopal; Golden Pippin; Holland Pippin; Pepin d'Automne; Philadelphia Pippin; Pound Pippin; Pound Royal; Prince's Large Pippin; Reinette Blanche d'Espagne; Reinnete Blanche d'Espagne; Sudlow's Fall Pippin; Summer Pippin; Van Duym's Pippin; Van Dyn's Pippin; York; York Pippin

The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it¹:

Originated in the USA and first recorded in 1806. Fruits have moderately firm, fine, tender flesh with a subacid and aromatic flavour.

Sources

Fall Pippin (accession 1948 - 638), National Fruit Collection, Brogdale, Kent (Defra). Supports: the description quoted; the use; the fruit's size, shape and colours and the flesh, from the collection's characterisation; the picking time at Brogdale (mid september); the other names.
Using whole-genome SNP data to reconstruct a large multi-generation pedigree in apple germplasm, Hélène Muranty and others, BMC Plant Biology 20:2, 2020. Supports: its ploidy, diploid (supplementary table S1).

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