8. Elmore Pippin - Dessert Apple

Notes:

Elmore Pippin was first collected for propagation 1949. Graftwood was received from the National Fruit Collection at Brogdale for propagation in the Gloucestershire Apple Collection in around 1993.

John Guilding was born in Elmore, Glos  in 1922 and left there in 1935. He remembers the ‘Elmore Pippin’ well. His father Jack Guilding was a cidermaker and had a fruit business in Elmore Back.

Hilda May Wellington (née Gregson,) whose father also had a cidermaking and fruit business, remembers the Elmore Pippin’ growing at Upper Hall, Elton in 1929.

A desert apple also used in cider making.

It was classed as ‘endangered’ in 1999

The fruit is  relatively small, and a slightly flattened in shape.

It is mostly a  pale yellow, slightly flushed with light red and may have conspicuous russetted ‘lenticels’ (centre top in photo).

The flesh is firm, fine, tough, cream tinged with green and the flavour is described as  ‘sub-acid’.

original photograph of Malus var. ‘Elmore Pippin’ fruit by C.Martell

Season very late. Flowering late May, and the ripe fruit may be still on the tree in the middle of November.

Pollination.

Self sterile. Because of the late flowering it is in pollination Class E  - and will be pollinated by other late flowering trees.

Rootstock: Our tree is on MM106 rootstock for a medium sized tree.

Main source:  Native Apples of Gloucestershire by Charles Martell

Malus domestica 'Elmore Pippin'