Cripps Red is a

cultivar A cultivar is a kind of Horticulture, cultivated plant that people have selected for desired phenotypic trait, traits and which retains those traits when Plant propagation, propagated. Methods used to propagate cultivars include division, root a ...

apple An apple is a round, edible fruit produced by an apple tree (''Malus'' spp.). Fruit trees of the orchard or domestic apple (''Malus domestica''), the most widely grown in the genus, are agriculture, cultivated worldwide. The tree originated ...

s; the fruit are eaten fresh. The original tree was bred by John Cripps from

Golden Delicious Golden Delicious is a cultivar of apple. It is one of the 15 most popular apple cultivars in the United States. It is not closely related to Red Delicious. History Golden Delicious arose from a chance seedling, possibly a hybrid of Grimes ...

× Lady Williams. The fruit mature very late in the season. Cripps Red fruit can be marketed as Sundowner apples, if they are sufficiently good quality and are also sold as Joya in Europe.

Cripps Pink Cripps Pink is a cultivar of apple. It is one of several cultivars sold under the Trademark, trademark name . It was originally bred by John Cripps (horticulturalist), John Cripps at the Western Australia Department of Agriculture (Western Austra ...

(Pink Lady) and Western Dawn (Enchanted) apples have the same parentage as Cripps Red.

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