Applevariety
Cox's Pomona
Also known as Cox Pomona +10
Cox Pomona · Coxovo jablko · Dean's Codlin · Fearn's · Fearn's Apple · Higg's Seedling · Hill's Seedling · Pomona · Pomona de Cox · Pomona Koksa · Royal Portugee
A cooking and dessert apple with cream flesh and green-yellow skin, broad round-conical in shape, raised in about 1825; sweet, mildly tart, juicy and soft. Picked in mid-September.
Origin · Colnbrook Lawn, Slough, Buckinghamshire
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- soft
- Juiciness
- juicy
- Used for
- Culinary / Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Skin greasiness StrongSurface colour RedBackground colour Green yellowSurface colour pattern striped/mottled
- Flesh
- Cream
- Shape
- Broad globose conical
- Size
- largeWidth 75.00 mmHeight 62.00 mm
Origin & family
Where Cox's Pomona began
Recorded origin
Colnbrook Lawn, Slough, Buckinghamshire
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- large
- type
- Culinary / Dessert
- shape
- Broad globose conical
- width
- 75.00 mm
- height
- 62.00 mm
- ribbing
- medium
- firmness
- soft
- synonyms
- Cox Pomona, Coxovo jablko, Dean's Codlin, Fearn's, Fearn's Apple, Higg's Seedling, Hill's Seedling, Pomona, Pomona de Cox, Pomona Koksa, Royal Portugee
- mother to
- Mrs. Phillimore Prince Edward
- parentage
- Ribston Pippin x Unknown
- greasiness
- Strong
- over colour
- Red
- flesh colour
- Cream
- ground colour
- Green yellow
- over colour pattern
- striped/mottled
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.