Allington Pepping
Variety of Apple · Malus domestica
English connoisseur variety with a tart, complex aroma of orange, banana and raisin.
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5🇬🇧 United Kingdom 1884Dessert
Taste & characteristics
Taste
tartaromatic
Susceptibility & resistance
ScabBrown rot
Profile
- Pollination
- self-sterile – needs a pollinator variety
Flowering & harvest
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Description
Fruit
Spicy connoisseur's dessert apple with a distinctive, complex aroma (hints of apple, orange, banana, lemon, raisin), more acidic than Cox's Orange; rated 2. Skin scab-resistant.
Growth
Weak vigour, often with dense fruit set.
Yield
Comes into bearing relatively early with dense crops; fruit cracking can cause rot.
Notes
A connoisseur's variety recommended with reservations, prized for fruit salads.
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