Yellow Ingestrie
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Raised in about 1800 by Thomas Andrew Knight at Wormsley Grange, Herefordshire, England. Fruits have fine, tender, greenish yellow flesh with a rich and subacid flavour.
Synonyms:
d'Ingestrie jaune, Early Pippin, Early Yellow, Gelbe Pepping von Ingestrie, Gelber Peppin von Ingestrie, Gelber Pepping von Ingestrie, Ingestrie, Ingestrie Jaune, Ingestrie Yellow, Jaune d'Ingestrie, Little Golden Knob, Pomme d'Ingestrie Jaune, Summer Golden Pippin, White Pippin, Yellow Ingestre, Yellow Ingestrie Pippin
Availability
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
Material held in Tidnor Wood National Collection® of Malus (Cider making)
Material held in the Marcher Apple Network collections (Paramor)
Material held in the Marcher Apple Network collections (Donnington)
Parentage:
Orange Pippin x Golden Pippin
Mother to:
Glebe Gold
Size
small-medium 2
Type
Dessert 2
Shape
Oblong 2
Height
49.50 mm 2
Width
53.00 mm 2
Ground Colour
Yellow 2
Over Colour
n/a 2
Russet
very low 2
Greasiness
Medium 2
Coarseness
fine 2
Flesh Colour
Greenish 2
Accession name
Yellow Ingestrie
Flowering time
3rd May 10% flowering
9th May Full (80%) flowering
19th May 90% petal fall
Picking time
Early September 1
References:
1. NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.
2. Smith, M. (1971) National Apple Register