The 'Sturmer Pippin' is a dessert
apple cultivar, believed to be a '
Ribston Pippin' and 'Nonpareil' cross.
'Sturmer Pippin' is recorded as being presented to the Horticultural Society (later
Royal Horticultural Society) by Ezekiel Dillistone in 1827.
[Sanders, R. (2010), ''The Apple Book'', ] The apple takes its name from the village of
Sturmer, Essex
Sturmer is a village in the county of Essex, England, 2 miles (3 km) SE of Haverhill and close to the county border with Suffolk. Its name was originally "Stour Mere", from the River Stour and is explicitly mentioned in the Domesday Book ...
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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
Tasmania and
New Zealand from the 1890s.
[Morgan, J. & Richards, A. (Illus. Dowle, E.) (2002), ''The New Book of Apples'', ]
References
External links
Sturmer pippins at Sturmer Nurseries
British apples
Dessert apples
Apple cultivars
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