Pixie apple

/PIK-see/
[English]

A small eating apple with crisp, juicy, aromatic flesh and yellowish-green skin flushed and striped with red and some russet. It was raised at NFT, Royal Horticultural Society at Wisley in 1947 probably from a Cox's Orange Pippin or Sunset seedling. It received the Royal Horticultural Society First Class Certificate in 1972 and the Award of Garden Merit in 1993. This late-season variety is harvested from early October in South-East England and is at is best from December to March.

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