'Cox's Orange Pippin' | |
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Genus | Malus |
Species | Malus domestica |
Hybrid parentage | 'Margil' X 'Rosemary Russet'[citation needed] |
Cultivar | 'Cox's Orange Pippin' |
Origin | United Kingdom, 1830 |
Cox's Orange Pippin, in Britain often referred to simply as Cox, is an apple cultivar first grown in 1825[citation needed] or 1830[1] at Colnbrook in Buckinghamshire, England, by the retired brewer and horticulturist Richard Cox.
Though the parentage of the cultivar is unknown, Ribston Pippin seems a likely candidate. DNA analysis of major apple pedigrees has suggested Margil as the parent of Cox, with Ribston Pippin being another Margil seedling.[2] The variety was introduced for sale by the 1850s by Charles Turner, and grown commercially from the 1860s, particularly in the Vale of Evesham in Worcestershire, and later in Kent.[citation needed]