Apple varieties, United Kingdom
Cox's Orange Pippin Red Sport (Potter)
The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it1:
A red sport of Cox’s Orange Pippin. Received by the National Fruit Trials in 1957. Originated with Mr C.A. Potter, Howletts Farm, Molash, Canterbury, Kent. Fruits have firm, fine-textured, juicy flesh with a rich, aromatic flavour.
Family tree
Parents, grandparents and great-grandparents, as the entries in the atlas record them.
- Cox's Orange Pippin Red Sport (Potter) United Kingdom, by 1957
- Sport of Ribston Pippin United Kingdom, about 1707
- Parent Margil France, probably by 1608
- Parent Nonsuch Park United Kingdom, by 1831
- Sport of Ribston Pippin United Kingdom, about 1707
Sources
- Cox's Orange Pippin Red Sport (Potter) (accession 1957 - 156), National Fruit Collection, Brogdale, Kent (Defra). Supports: the description quoted; the parentage; the use; the fruit's size, shape and colours and the flesh, from the collection's characterisation; the picking time at Brogdale (late september); the other names.
