Ingrid Marie Explained

'Ingrid Marie'
Hybrid:'Cox's Orange Pippin' × Cox's Pomona
Cultivar:'Ingrid Marie'
Origin:Denmark, 1910

Ingrid Marie is an apple cultivar.

It was cultivated by accident around 1910 on the premises of a school in Høed on the island of Funen in Denmark. It is a cross of the two English cultivars Cox's Orange Pippin and Cox's Pomona.

The apple has a red, firm skin and the color continues into the flesh underneath the skin.

'Ingrid Marie' trees grow very well in a moderate warm and humid climate.

Descendant cultivars

References

  1. http://www.nationalfruitcollection.org.uk/full2.php?id=2925&&fruit=apple National Fruit Collection page