Apple varieties, United Kingdom
Cox's Pomona
The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it1:
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.
Family tree
Parents, grandparents and great-grandparents, as the entries in the atlas record them.
- Cox's Pomona United Kingdom, about 1825
- Seed parent Ribston Pippin United Kingdom, about 1707
- Parent Margil France, probably by 1608
- Parent Nonsuch Park United Kingdom, by 1831
- Seed parent Ribston Pippin United Kingdom, about 1707
Offspring in the atlas
- Ingrid Marie × Cox's Orange Pippin; Denmark, about 1910
- Mrs. Phillimore × Mother; United Kingdom, by 1896
- Prince Edward × Cox's Orange Pippin; United Kingdom, by 1897
- Stobo Castle × Ecklinville; United Kingdom, by about 1900
- William Peters × Cox's Orange Pippin; United Kingdom, by 1917
15 varieties in the atlas descend from Cox's Pomona.
Sources
- Cox's Pomona (accession 1957 - 188), 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 (mid september); the other names.
- Using whole-genome SNP data to reconstruct a large multi-generation pedigree in apple germplasm, Hélène Muranty and others, BMC Plant Biology 20:2, 2020. Supports: its ploidy, diploid (supplementary table S1).
