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Christmas Pippin apple trees

Pick: Late-season    Flowering group: 3       Uses: Eat fresh 
Christmas Pippin apple tree

Christmas Pippin is a new Cox-style apple variety introduced in 2011. Unusually for a modern apple variety, it is a genuine "pippin" apple, raised from seed and of unknown parentage.

Christmas Pippin is a very "more-ish" apple, with a definite apple flavour, juicy melting flesh and a thin skin - and it tastes exactly like an apple should. The flavour is essentially sweet, but with some sharpness too. It is bound to be popular with fans of Cox's Orange Pippin or similar varieties - and it is much easier to grow.

Order now for delivery September 2013 onwards

Christmas Pippin apple trees for sale

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Pot-grown fruit trees (Delivery start September 2013)

Small (1.8m - 2.5m)2-year bush-trained - 12L pot - M9 rootstock £38.00
Medium (2.2m - 3m)2-year bush-trained - 12L pot - M26 rootstock £39.00
Large (3m - 4m)2-year bush-trained - 12L pot - MM106 rootstock £39.00
Large (3m - 4m)Half-standard premium - 12L pot - MM106 rootstock £45.00

Bare-root fruit trees (Deliveries start November 2013)

Small (1.8m - 2.5m)1-year - Bare-root - M9 rootstock £29.00
Small (1.8m - 2.5m)2-year bush-trained - Bare-root - M9 rootstock £32.00
Medium (2.2m - 3m)1-year - Bare-root - M26 rootstock £29.00
Medium (2.2m - 3m)2-year bush-trained - Bare-root - M26 rootstock £33.00
Large (3m - 4m)1-year - Bare-root - MM106 rootstock £29.00
Large (3m - 4m)2-year bush-trained - Bare-root - MM106 rootstock £33.00
Large (3m - 4m)Half-standard - Bare-root - MM106 rootstock £34.00

Pot-grown cordon fruit trees (Delivery start September 2013)

Small (1.8m - 2.5m)Cordon premium - 12L pot - M9 rootstock £30.00

Bare-root cordon fruit trees (Deliveries start November 2013)

Small (1.8m - 2.5m)Cordon - Bare-root - M9 rootstock £34.00

**All prices include delivery. We offer a discount on orders of multiple bare-root trees for delivery at the same time - this will be shown at the checkout.

Delivery period: Pot-grown trees can be delivered from September onwards. Bare-root trees can be delivered from mid-November onwards. Within those periods you can specify your preferred month of delivery during the checkout process. It is best to order as soon as you can to ensure items are reserved for you.

*Mature heights: Height shown is the approximate height of the tree when mature (after 5-10 years), not the height when supplied. See photos of trees as supplied. Actual mature heights may vary considerably dependent on your local conditions and training and pruning regime - see our Tree Height Calculator.

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Summary features of Christmas Pippin

Growing

Uses

Identification

  • Country of origin: United Kingdom
  • Period of origin: 2000
  • Fruit colour: Orange flush
  • Leaf colour: Green
  • Popular variety

Climate

  • Temperate climates


Pollination guide for Christmas Pippin

Christmas Pippin is in flowering group 3. Christmas Pippin is self-sterile and needs to be pollinated by another tree of a different variety nearby. Since it flowers in the middle of the blossom season it can be pollinated by most other apple trees.



How to grow Christmas Pippin apple trees

Christmas Pippin is easy to grow, with better yields than Cox's Orange Pippin. It can be pollinated by most other apple varieties.



Varieties with similar picking times to Christmas Pippin

<== Pick slightly earlierAbout the same timePick slightly later ==>
Allington Pippin
Bardsey
Egremont Russet
Honeycrisp
Red Delicious
Santana
Sunset
Tickled Pink

Annie Elizabeth
Blenheim Orange
Bramley 20
Bramley's Seedling
Catshead
Chivers Delight
Dumelow's Seedling
Empire
Fameuse
Golden Delicious
Golden Noble
Golden Pippin
Golden Russet
Howgate Wonder
Jonathan
Jupiter
Karmijn de Sonnaville
King of the Pippins
Lady (Api)
Laxton's Superb
Pixie
Rajka
Rosemary Russet
Rubinette
Saturn
Scotch Bridget

Adams Pearmain
Barnack Beauty
Calville Blanc
Claygate Pearmain
Cornish Aromatic
Cornish Gilliflower
Court Pendu Plat
Edward VII
Elstar
Fiesta
Freyberg
Herefordshire Russet
Idared
Jonagold
Kidd's Orange Red
Lane's Prince Albert
Lemon Pippin
Newton Wonder
Orleans Reinette
Red Falstaff
Tydeman's Late Orange
Zabergau Reinette



Historical details

Christmas Pippin is a modern variety, first introduced in 2011, so you might expect it to be the result of a major university-led apple breeding programme. In fact the original tree was discovered growing beside a road in Somerset, so it is a genuine seedling or "pippin" variety, probably from a motorist's discarded apple core. The parentage is unknown, but there is clearly an influence from Cox's Orange Pippin in its ancestry. The leaf shape has some resemblance to Gala (which itself is distantly related to Cox's Orange Pippin).



Botanical name

Malus domestica Christmas Pippin



Related variety collections

Cox's Orange Pippin substitutes


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