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Cox's Early Export
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Raised by Ivorys Ltd., at Rangiora, New Zealand. Received by the National Fruit Trials in 1950. Fruits are crisp with a subacid flavour.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Parentage:
- Cox's Orange Pippin x King of the Pippins
- Shape
- Truncate conical 2
- Size
- medium 2
- Height
- 52.00mm 2
- Width
- 60.00mm 2
- Ribbing
- medium 2
- Ground Colour
- Green yellow 2
- Over Colour
- Red 2
- Over Colour (Pattern)
- striped 2
- Russet
- very low 2
- Crunch
- medium-crisp 2
- Coarseness
- coarse 2
- Flesh Colour
- Greenish 2
Accession No.
1953 - 139
- Accession name
- Cox's Early Export
- Flowering time ›››
- 4th May10% flowering
9th MayFull (80%) flowering
16th May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Late August 1
- References:
- 1. NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.
- 2. Smith, M. (1971) National Apple Register
Design: Chris Turnbull, September 2019