Cox's Orange Pippin

Cox's Orange Pippin
Genus	Malus
Species	Malus domestica
Hybrid parentage	Margil × Rosemary Russet
Cultivar	Cox's Orange Pippin
Origin	Colnbrook, Buckinghamshire, 1830

Cox's Orange Pippin, often simply called as Cox or Cox's Pippins, is an apple cultivar first grown in 1825 or 1830^[1] at Colnbrook in Buckinghamshire, England, by the retired brewer and horticulturist Richard Cox.

Though the parent of the cultivar is not known, Ribston Pippin may be a candidate. DNA analysis of major apple pedigrees has suggested Margil as the parent of Cox, with Ribston Pippin being another Margil seedling.^[2] The variety was introduced for sale by the 1850s by Charles Turner, and grown profitably from the 1860s, mainly in the Vale of Evesham in Worcestershire, and later in Kent.

1. ↑ Beach, S.A.; Booth, N.O.; Taylor, O.M. (1905), "Cox Orange", The apples of New York, vol. 2, Albany: J. B. Lyon, pp. 42–43
2. ↑ Muranty, Hélène; Denancé, Caroline; Feugey, Laurence; Crépin, Jean-Luc; Barbier, Yves; Tartarini, Stefano; Ordidge, Matthew; Troggio, Michela; Lateur, Marc; Nybom, Hilde; Paprstein, Frantisek (2020-01-02). "Using whole-genome SNP data to reconstruct a large multi-generation pedigree in apple germplasm". BMC Plant Biology. 20 (1): 2. doi:10.1186/s12870-019-2171-6. ISSN 1471-2229. PMC 6941274. PMID 31898487.