General Plant Information (Edit)
Plant Habit: Tree
Water Preferences: Mesic
Leaves: Deciduous
Fruit: Edible to birds
Flowers: Showy
Fragrant
Flower Time: Spring
Late spring or early summer
Uses: Flowering Tree
Edible Parts: Fruit
Dynamic Accumulator: K (Potassium)
Wildlife Attractant: Bees
Pollinators: Various insects
Awards and Recognitions: RHS AGM
Child plants: one child plant

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Common names
  • Apple
Also sold as:
  • King of the Pippins
  • Reine de Reinettes

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Location: RHS gardens Harlow Carr Harrogate Yorkshire England UK
Date: 2022-04-30
Malus pumila 'King of Pippin'
Location: RHS Harlow Carr, Yorkshire, UK
Date: 2021-10-10
Location: RHS Harlow Carr kitchen garden
Date: 2018-08-05
Location: RHS Harlow Carr, Yorkshire, UK
Date: 2020-09-05
Uploaded by robertduval14

Date: c. 1908
photo from the 1908 catalogue, Clibrans', Ltd., Altrincham, Engla

UK National Fruit Collection photo
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