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Apple cultivar
Malus domestica
Cripps Red
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Cultivar
| Cripps Red
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Origin
| Australia 1973
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Cripps Red
is a
cultivar
of
apples
; the fruit are eaten fresh. The original tree was bred by
John Cripps
from
Golden Delicious
×
Lady Williams
.
[1]
The fruit mature very late in the season.
[2]
Cripps Red fruit can be marketed as Sundowner apples, if they are sufficiently good quality
[1]
and are also sold as Joya in Europe.
[3]
Cripps Pink
(Pink Lady) and Western Dawn (Enchanted) apples have the same parentage as Cripps Red.
[3]
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