Werribee Park Heritage Orchard
❄️ WINTER HERITAGE FRUIT TREE FESTIVAL - SUNDAY 9TH AUGUST
❄️ OUR SHOP IS CURRENTLY CLOSED AND WILL REOPEN AFTER OUR FESTIVAL
❄️ WINTER HERITAGE FRUIT TREE FESTIVAL - SUNDAY 9TH AUGUST
❄️ OUR SHOP IS CURRENTLY CLOSED AND WILL REOPEN AFTER OUR FESTIVAL
Ribston Pippin
Ribston Pippin
Ribston Pippin
Price range: $5.00 through $35.00
Description
- Origin: Raised at Ribston Hall, Yorkshire, England from seed brought from Rouen, and planted in about 1707. Received the Award of Merit from the Royal Horticultural Society in 1962. Possibly a parent of Cox’s Orange Pippin
- Tree: Spur bearer
- Vigour: V2 FLOWERING
- Group: 3 FRUIT
- Shape: An irregularly-shaped & sometimes lopsided apple, usually round to conical and flattened at the base with distinct ribbing SKIN AND
- Flesh: Fruits have firm, fine-textured, moderately juicy flesh with a rich aromatic flavour. Skin is yellow with an orange blush and red streaked with russet dots. Yellow flesh is firm, fine-grained, and sweet with a pear-like flavour
- Harvest: Mid season
- Uses: Eating,
- Cooking: Jelly, pies, sauce, Juice, Cider
Additional information
| Product Type | Scion, Tree |
|---|---|
| Origin | England |
| Product Year | 1707 |
| Harvest | M |
| Uses | Cider, Cooking, Eating, Juice |
| Vigour | V2 |
| Flowering Group | 3 |
| Cooking Uses | Jelly, Pie, Sauce |
| Tip or Spur | Spur |
| Description | and sweet with a pear-like flavour. HARVEST: Mid season USES: Eating, Cider, Cooking – Jelly, England from seed brought from Rouen, fine-grained, fine-textured, juice, moderately juicy flesh with a rich aromatic flavour. Skin is yellow with an orange blush and red streaked with russet dots. Yellow flesh is firm, ORIGIN: Raised at Ribston Hall, pies, sauce, usually round to conical and flattened at the base with distinct ribbing SKIN AND FLESH: Fruits have firm, Yorkshire |