Ribston Pippin Apple Find a stockist Buy online from The Tree Shop Back To List Description: Ribston Pippin is a well known, high quality triploid dessert apple. Ground colour yellowish green becoming brownish-orange with short, broken red stripes. Pale yellow flesh, crisp, firm and sweet, aromatic in flavour, more acid than Cox. Described as being ‘like a good dessert wine’. A valuable garden variety! History: Raised at Ribston Hall, near Knaresborough, North Yorkshire in 1707. Grown from a pip that turned, has enjoyed popularity for hundreds of years. In 1962 it received an Award of Merit from Royal Horticultural Society. Pollination Partners: Apple Adam's Pearmain Apple Bardsey Apple Cornish Aromatic Apple Egremont Russet Apple Golden Pippin Apple Lord Lambourne Apple Red Windsor Apple St Edmund's Russet Attributes Uses: Eating Storing: JanuaryJ Uses: Juice Picking month: Early October Pollination group 2 Award-winningJ Suitable for juicing Triploid Back To List Find a local stockist by selecting your county: Select a CountyAberdeenshireAngusArgyllshireAvonAyrshireBedfordshireBerkshireBristolBuckinghamshireCambridgeshireCardiffCarmarthenshireCeredigionChannel IslandsCheshireClwydConwyCornwallCumbriaDenbighshireDerbyshireDevonDorsetDumfriesshireDunbartonshireDurhamEast LothianEast SussexEssexFifeGlamorganGloucestershireGwentGwyneddHampshireHerefordshireHertfordshireHumbersideInverness-shireIsle of ManKentLanarkshireLancashireLeicestershireLincolnshireLondonLondonderryManchesterMerionethMerseysideMid GlamorganMiddlesexMidlothianMonmouthshireMontgomeryshireMorayshireNorfolkNorth YorkshireNorthamptonshireNorthumberlandNottinghamshireOxfordshirePembrokeshirePerthshirePowysRenfrewshireRoxburghshireRutlandShropshireSomersetSouth YorkshireStaffordshireStirlingshireSuffolkSurreyTaysideTyne and WearWarwickshireWest GlamorganWest LothianWest MidlandsWest SussexWest YorkshireWigtownshireWiltshireWorcestershireYorkshire Search Discover these similar varieties… Exeter Cross Apple An early dessert apple, heavy cropper and UK raised. Scarlet colour, crisp, juicy and aromatic with refreshing flavours! Full Details Bloody Ploughman Apple An old variety from Carse of Gowrie. Classified as an eater, but likely to do better as a cooker. Full Details Honeycrisp Apple Large, attractive, very crisp with a fizzy texture, sweet with pleasant mild flavours. Stores well in natural conditions. Full Details Alkmene Apple Good alternative to Cox with dense, crunchy flesh and slightly aromatic yet honeyed and sweet flavour. Full Details
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