Allington Pippin apple
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.
Summary
- Species: Malus domestica
- 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: Red / Orange flush
- 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
- Triploid: No
- Vigour: Average growth
- Fruit bearing: Spur-bearer
- General disease resistance: Average
Climate
- Suitable for temperate climates
Relationships to other varieties
Parents and other ancestors of this variety:
- Cox's Orange Pippin (parent)
- King of the Pippins (parent)
Allington Pippin identification photos from official fruit collections
Allington Pippin identification photos from website visitors
Fruit tree register
Do you have a tree of this variety in your garden or orchard? If so please register the details here and contribute to our international register of fruit trees.
The following Allington Pippin trees have been registered - click the name to view more details of each tree.
You can also view these trees on a map.
United Kingdom
- Alex Webb in CUMBRIA, KENDAL
- John Ellis in SALISBURY, Wiltshire
- Kay in LEEDS, W Yorks
- Martin Timms in Baldock, Hertfordshire
- Mary Frew in NORFOLK
- Rachael Boughton in BRIDPORT, DORSET
- Robin Homewood in PETERBOROUGH,
- Simon Kidner in SWANAGE, DORSET
- Tim Stevens in YORK, EAST YORKSHIRE
Switzerland
- Helmut Mueller in NEUKIRCH, Thurgau
Latest Spring blossom records for this variety
2011 season
- 24th April 2011 - tree owned by Mary in , United Kingdom
- 17th April 2011 - tree owned by Simon in SWANAGE, United Kingdom
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Mature heights for Allington Pippin trees
This table shows the likely mature height for a Allington Pippin tree taking into account the vigor of the variety, the rootstock, and soil conditions.
| Rootstock | Soil quality | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Poor | Below average | Average | Above average | Very good | |
| P22 | 2.5 ft 0.8 m |
3.1 ft 0.9 m |
3.7 ft 1.1 m |
4.3 ft 1.3 m |
4.9 ft 1.5 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 | 5.3 ft 1.6 m |
6.6 ft 2.0 m |
7.9 ft 2.4 m |
9.2 ft 2.8 m |
10.5 ft 3.2 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 | 9.1 ft 2.8 m |
11.4 ft 3.5 m |
13.7 ft 4.2 m |
15.9 ft 4.9 m |
18.2 ft 5.6 m |
| M25 | 10.5 ft 3.2 m |
13.1 ft 4.0 m |
15.8 ft 4.8 m |
18.4 ft 5.6 m |
21.0 ft 6.4 m |
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