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Stowell Cox
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Raised at CSIRO, Stowell Avenue, Hobart, Tasmania. Fruits have white, fairly juicy flesh with a slightly acid flavour.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Parentage:
- Cox's Orange Pippin x Democrat
Accession No.
1974 - 322
- Accession name
- Stowell Cox
- Flowering time ›››
- 12th May10% flowering
17th MayFull (80%) flowering
24th May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Mid October 1
- Size
- large 1
- Shape
- Broad globose conical 1
- Ribbing
- weak-medium 1
- Crown
- medium 1
- Ground Colour
- Yellow 1
- Over Colour
- Orange 1
- Over Colour Amount
- medium 1
- Over Colour Pattern
- striped/mottled 1
- Russet
- low-medium 1
- Crunch
- crisp 1
- Flesh Colour
- Yellowish 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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