Jupiter (apple)

'Jupiter' apple
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]}

See also

• Topaz (apple)

References

1. RHS.
2. Jupiter at Orange Pippin, See also "Tasting" and "Reviews" tabs

• National Fruit Collection page