Adam’s Pearmain Scion

Description

AKA Norfolk Pippin and Hanging Pippin

Adam’s Pearmain is great apple variety that you’ll never find in a grocery store.

The apple known as Adams Pearmain today is a medium-sized, very conical fruit with dull crimson-red skin covered with a fine gray-brown russet coat. The creamy white flesh is crisp, tender and firm with a dry, nutty flavor. It tastes great, keeps well and is naturally disease resistant.  Ripens mid-late October.

Adams’s Pearmain is a an old-fashioned late dessert apple, probably originating from Norfolk. It has an attractive ‘pearmain’ shape, and very popular in England.

The apple i spretty dry- which can make it less desireable to some folks. However it is a very enjoyable apple, which bosts a rich aromatic flavor, is usually described as nutty – a quality it shares with another popular Victorian apple, the Egremont Russet.

Some evidence exists that Adam’s Pearmain might be a triploid variety, with 3 sets of chromosomes instead of the usual 2.  However it does not show many of the typical features seen in triploids.