Five Crown Pippin
Also known as London Pippin
 
Fruit ripening time: March - April
 
A lovely cooking apple with a somewhat nutty flavour and a pleasant acidity. 
Similar to the Granny Smith, it will keep its shape when baked, making it an excellent apple for pies, but will also cook down to a yellow tinted sauce with a good flavour and lemony tang. 
 
A medium sized apple, with a yellow-green skin that will blush with red on the sunny side. The flesh is juicy, crisp and white. 
 
A moderately vigorous, upright tree with a spreading habit. Spur bearing.
 
Uses: Excellent qualities for baking and for sauce. Has excellent storage qualities and can keep for many months in refrigeration.
Pollinators: Akané, Braeburn, Brown's Apple, Gala, Kingston Black, Northern Spy, Pine Gold Pippin, Splendour, Stoke Red, Tydeman's Early Worcester, Yarlington Mill, late white flowering Crabapples such as ioensis Plena. 
 
Flowering Group 5.