Apple ‘Queen Cox’

A sport of the finest and best-known English apple, ‘Cox’s Orange Pippin’, Apple ‘Queen Cox’ is the most superior offspring of the Pippin family, condensing all the best characteristics of its relatives. The orange-red fruit has a richer colour than Orange Pippin, and is slightly larger and crispier. It shares the same complex, aromatic flavour, with firm, slightly acid, juicy flesh. Flavour improves with storage. This is an excellent eating apple and juicer.

’Queen Cox’ is self-fertile but a poor pollinator of other apple varieties. Like Orange Pippin it requires good conditions for fruiting. A spur bearer, pollination group 3, season of use from October to January.

• Apple rootstocks:
• M27 – Extreme dwarf reaching a mature height of up to 1.5m (5′)
• M9/ Pajam 9/ P9 – Dwarf reaching a mature height of up to 2.5m (8′)
• M26 – Dwarf reaching a mature height of 2.5-3m (8-10′)
• M6 – Semi dwarf reaching a mature height of up to 3m (10′)
• MM106 – Semi dwarf reaching a mature height of up to 4m (13′)

This variety is self-fertile and does not require a pollination partner.

Estimated time to cropping once planted: 2 years.
Estimated time to best yields: 5 years.

Useful links:

How to grow fruit trees Fruit rootstock guide

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