Our Variety Assessment

Its strengths, growing requirements and the conditions in which it performs best.

Queen Cox combines the complex flavour of Cox’s Orange Pippin with richer fruit colour and the advantage of self-fertility. Its fine, juicy flesh balances sweetness, acidity and spicy aromas. A compatible pollination partner can still improve cropping. Like Cox, it requires a sheltered, favourable site and is more demanding than modern disease-resistant garden varieties.

Queen Cox

Price range: 26,50 € through 59,75 €

A modern self-fertile form of the renowned Cox’s Orange Pippin, with arguably even better flavour.

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1 year old grafted tree – approx. 1–2 m

Half-standard – 1 to 1.5 m stem

Low-stem tree – approx. 60 cm stem

Standard tree – 1.8 m stem and over

Apple rootstock options

Bittenfelder – approx. 6 m mature height

EM9 – approx. 2.5 m mature height

M116 – approx. 4 m mature height

MM111 – approx. 4 m mature height

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SKU: 4328 Categories: Apple trees, Eating apple trees

Description

Queen Cox is a variant of the original Cox’s Orange Pippin, and is perhaps the best of all the many forms of Cox’s Orange Pippin.

The most noticeable difference is a slightly deeper skin colouring, but the fruit-size can also be slightly larger and the texture may be slightly crisper … although these are nuances and may vary from year to year.

In any case there is no doubt that Queen Cox has all the aromatic qualities associated with Cox’s Orange Pippin, and in flavour terms is by any standards a remarkably good apple.

Variety characteristics

Variety origin

Self-fertile form of Cox’s Orange Pippin, selected in the United Kingdom as a clone or sport of Cox.

Origin

Period of origin

USDA zone

Flowering

Harvest period

Eating / keeping period

Use

Sweetness / acidity

Disease resistance

Self-fertility

Pollinator value

Ploidy

Origin and identity

Parentage

Sport or self-fertile form of Cox’s Orange Pippin

Synonyms

Cox self-fertile, Clone 18

Growth and adaptation

Vigour and habit

Medium vigour, behaviour close to Cox, more reliable fruit set but still fairly demanding in terms of disease management

Pollination

Compatible pollinating varieties

For reliable fruit set, plant at least one variety with a compatible flowering period nearby. Flowering period: 3 - mid season.

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Harvest calendar

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At the same time

September 15-30

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Additional variety information for Queen Cox is provided in partnership with Orange Pippin.