Apple varieties, United Kingdom
Robin Pippin
The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it1:
A chance seedling originating at Gate House Farm, Brenchley, Kent. Fruits have firm, fine, moderately juicy flesh with a pleasant flavour.
Family tree
Parents, grandparents and great-grandparents, as the entries in the atlas record them.
- Robin Pippin United Kingdom
- Parent Beauty of Bath United Kingdom, about 1864
- Parent Margaret United Kingdom, by 1665
- Parent Worcester Pearmain United Kingdom, by 1873
- Seed parent Devonshire Quarrenden United Kingdom, by 1678
- Parent Beauty of Bath United Kingdom, about 1864
Sources
- Robin Pippin (accession 1961 - 097), 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 (late august).
- 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 parents, Beauty of Bath and Worcester Pearmain, found from SNP data (supplementary table S3); its ploidy, diploid (supplementary table S1).
