Apple varieties, United Kingdom
Pixie
The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it1:
Raised in 1947 at the National Fruit Trials, Wisley. Received a First Class Certificate from the Royal Horticultural Society in 1972. Fruits have crisp, fairly juicy flesh with a good aromatic flavour.
Family tree
Parents, grandparents and great-grandparents, as the entries in the atlas record them.
- Pixie United Kingdom, 1947
- Seed parent Cox's Orange Pippin or Sunset
Sources
- Pixie (accession 1978 - 320), 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 october).
