Jupiter (apple)
'Jupiter' apple | |
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Hybrid parentage | Cox's Orange Pippin × Starking Delicious |
Cultivar | 'Jupiter' |
Origin | England |
Jupiter is a modern cultivar of domesticated apple which was developed in England, by crossing a Cox's Orange Pippin with a Starking Delicious apple. According the Orange Pippin it is one of the best Cox-stye apple, with somewhat a more robust flavor, but more importantly, much more disease resistant. It is a heavy cropper and have a tendency to Biennial bearing if not thinned.[1] Is also frost resistant,[2] and has earned the Award of Garden Merit by the Royal Horticultural Society in 1993.[2] [1]
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