Queen Cox apple trees

Malus domestica

Queen Cox is listed in the RHS Plants for Pollinators

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Picking season: Mid
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Flowering group: 3

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.

Queen Cox organic apple trees for sale

Next deliveries: December 2026

11 yeartree on M9 rootstock26.50€
Small tree (1.5m-2.5m after 10 years) Bare-root
21 yeartree on M116 rootstock27.75€
Medium tree (2m-3.5m after 10 years) Bare-root
31 yeartree on MM111 rootstock26.50€
Large tree (3m-5m after 10 years) Bare-root
41 yeartree on Bittenfelder rootstock26.50€
Very large tree (5m-6m+ after 10 years) Bare-root

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Growing and Training

Queen Cox is a reliably self-fertile form of Cox's Orange Pippin.

Queen Cox is a poor pollinator of other apple varieties, partly because many are related to Cox, and partly because its self-fertility seems to reduce the viability of the pollen for cross-pollination.

In other respects growing Queen Cox means dealing with the same challenges as the original. It prefers a drier climate, and disease-resistance is only average.

History

Queen Cox was raised from a self-fertile form of the original Cox's Orange Pippin at the Long Ashton research station near Bristol, England in the 1970s. It is possible the scion material for this development was propagated from a naturally-occurring bud-sport of Cox's Orange Pippin found in an orchard in Berkshire in the 1950s, although the Berkshire form is not self-fertile. The Long Ashton Queen Cox was originally known as SF18.