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Pixie
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
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.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Parentage:
- Cox's Orange Pippin or Sunset x Unknown
- Sports:
- Red Pixie
Accession No.
1978 - 320
- Accession name
- Pixie
- Flowering time ›››
- 11th May10% flowering
16th MayFull (80%) flowering
22nd May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Mid October 1
- Size
- medium 1
- Shape
- Flat globose 1
- Crown
- weak 1
- Crunch
- crisp 1
- Juiciness
- juicy 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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