Cox's Pomona
syn. Cox Pomona, Coxovo jablko, Dean's Codlin, Fearn's, Fearn's Apple, Higg's Seedling, Hill's Seedling, Pomona, Pomona de Cox, Pomona Koksa, Royal Portugee
Culinary / Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Believed to be a sister seedling of Cox's Orange Pippin. It was raised in about 1825 by Richard Cox at Colnbrook Lawn, Slough, Buckinghamshire and introduced by Smale, Colnbrook Nursery, Slough. Fruits have softish, coarse-textured, juicy flesh with a sweet, subacid, fine flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Mid September
- Flowering
- 9th May (10%) · 14th May (full) · 23rd May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Size
- large
- Type
- Culinary / Dessert
- Shape
- Broad globose conical
- Width
- 75.00 mm
- Height
- 62.00 mm
- Ribbing
- medium
- Firmness
- soft
- Greasiness
- Strong
- Over colour
- Red
- Flesh colour
- Cream
- Ground colour
- Green yellow
- Over colour pattern
- striped/mottled
Source · National Fruit Collection
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