The 'Sturmer Pippin' is a dessert

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, believed to be a ' Ribston Pippin' and 'Nonpareil' cross. 'Sturmer Pippin' is recorded as being presented to the Horticultural Society (later

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) by Ezekiel Dillistone in 1827.Sanders, R. (2010), ''The Apple Book'', The apple takes its name from the village of

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Description

This apple is medium-sized, and has a bright green skin becoming greenish to yellow and flushed red. A good picking time is mid-November to late November . One of the best English keeping apples, 'Sturmer Pippin' became widely grown and exported from

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and

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from the 1890s.Morgan, J. & Richards, A. (Illus. Dowle, E.) (2002), ''The New Book of Apples'',

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Sturmer pippins at Sturmer Nurseries
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