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Cox's Pomona
Culinary / Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
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.
- Synonyms:
- 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
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Material held in the Marcher Apple Network collections (Ffordd-fawr)
- Parentage:
- Ribston Pippin x Unknown
- Mother to:
- Mrs. Phillimore
- Prince Edward
- Shape
- Broad globose conical 2
- Size
- large 2
- Height
- 62.00mm 2
- Width
- 75.00mm 2
- Ribbing
- medium 2
- Ground Colour
- Green yellow 2
- Over Colour
- Red 2
- Over Colour (Pattern)
- striped/mottled 2
- Greasiness
- Strong 2
- Flesh Colour
- Cream 2
Accession No.
1957 - 188
- Accession name
- Cox's Pomona
- Flowering time ›››
- 9th May10% flowering
14th MayFull (80%) flowering
23rd May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Mid September 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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