Allington Pippin apple

Malus domestica

A versatile English apple, with a strong pineapple-like flavour, useful for both cooking and eating.

An interesting high quality English dual-purpose apple.  It can be used initially as a baking apple (it keeps its shape when cooked) but after a few months in store the flavour mellows to an intense fruit drop or pineapple flavour.

Last updated 10 Jun 2010 by Orange Pippin.

Summary

  • Parentage: Cox's Orange Pippin x King of the Pippins
  • Origin: Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom
  • Introduced: 1884
  • Developed by: Thomas Laxton
  • Orange Pippin Cultivar ID: 100200

Identification

  • Fruit colour: Orange
  • Bultitude apple group: 7. Flushed / striped, some russeting, sweet

Using

  • Good for eating fresh
  • Good for cooking
  • Good for juice
  • Good for hard cider
  • Cooking result: Keeps shape
  • Flavour quality: Good
  • Flavour style: Pineapple

Growing

  • Flowering group: 3
  • Fertility: Partially self-fertile
  • Vigour: Average growth
  • Fruit bearing: Spur-bearer
  • General disease resistance: Average

Climate

  • Suitable for temperate climates

Mature tree heights for this variety (approximate)

Rootstock Soil quality
Poor Below average Average Above average Very good
P22 2.1 ft
0.6 m
2.6 ft
0.8 m
3.2 ft
1.0 m
3.7 ft
1.1 m
4.2 ft
1.3 m
M27 2.8 ft
0.9 m
3.5 ft
1.1 m
4.2 ft
1.3 m
4.9 ft
1.5 m
5.6 ft
1.7 m
M9 4.2 ft
1.3 m
5.3 ft
1.6 m
6.3 ft
1.9 m
7.4 ft
2.3 m
8.4 ft
2.6 m
Bud.9 4.2 ft
1.3 m
5.3 ft
1.6 m
6.3 ft
1.9 m
7.4 ft
2.3 m
8.4 ft
2.6 m
Geneva 16 4.2 ft
1.3 m
5.3 ft
1.6 m
6.3 ft
1.9 m
7.4 ft
2.3 m
8.4 ft
2.6 m
Geneva 11 4.9 ft
1.5 m
6.1 ft
1.9 m
7.4 ft
2.3 m
8.6 ft
2.6 m
9.8 ft
3.0 m
M26 5.6 ft
1.7 m
7.0 ft
2.1 m
8.4 ft
2.6 m
9.8 ft
3.0 m
11.2 ft
3.4 m
Geneva 30 5.6 ft
1.7 m
7.0 ft
2.1 m
8.4 ft
2.6 m
9.8 ft
3.0 m
11.2 ft
3.4 m
MM102 5.6 ft
1.7 m
7.0 ft
2.1 m
8.4 ft
2.6 m
9.8 ft
3.0 m
11.2 ft
3.4 m
M7 6.3 ft
1.9 m
7.9 ft
2.4 m
9.5 ft
2.9 m
11.0 ft
3.4 m
12.6 ft
3.9 m
M116 6.3 ft
1.9 m
7.9 ft
2.4 m
9.5 ft
2.9 m
11.0 ft
3.4 m
12.6 ft
3.9 m
MM106 7.0 ft
2.1 m
8.8 ft
2.7 m
10.5 ft
3.2 m
12.3 ft
3.8 m
14.0 ft
4.3 m
MM111 8.4 ft
2.6 m
10.5 ft
3.2 m
12.6 ft
3.9 m
14.7 ft
4.5 m
16.8 ft
5.2 m
Bud.118 9.8 ft
3.0 m
12.3 ft
3.8 m
14.7 ft
4.5 m
17.2 ft
5.3 m
19.6 ft
6.0 m
M25 11.2 ft
3.4 m
14.0 ft
4.3 m
16.8 ft
5.2 m
19.6 ft
6.0 m
22.4 ft
6.9 m
From an idea by N. Buck - more details.

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Visitor comments

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02 Nov 2009 Rickard BerglundSweden
In a danish test made ca 1939 Allington pippin was the best apple for making applejuice. The second best was Filippa.

20 Oct 2009 John EllisFARLEY, SALISBURY, WILTS, United Kingdom
I have an old tree producing prolific fruit well into the Autumn. It has been neglected but the frit still has a good flavour. The aples are usually covered in a black (sooty) covering of unkown sources - no neareby bonfires of chimneys - which washes off with a brush in water.

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