7. Berkeley Pippin - Dessert Apple

This once well regarded dessert apple was thought to be extinct until located and rescued for the Gloucestershire Apple Collection.

Also known as Dafferton

 A dessert apple, medium sized, a flattened round shape , often conical and irregular.

The skin is dull green with red stripes.

Season: It is really quite late to ripen, often well into November, when it develops its full flavour.

Rootstock: MM106

Pollination:  Self sterile, and blossoming quite late, so probably group D or E

Malus domestica 'Berkeley Pippin'

Notes:

Known   to Long Ashton Research Station soon after 1903  as a quality, sweet eating apple, it was considered ‘critically rare’ by 1999.

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Presumably indigenous to Berkeley, a specimen was collected for propagation  in the Gloucestershire Apple Collection from Pool Farm, Halmore, Nr  Berkely in 1997