Fiesta is a modern

cultivar A cultivar is a type of cultivated plant that people have selected for desired traits and when propagated retain those traits. Methods used to propagate cultivars include: division, root and stem cuttings, offsets, grafting, tissue culture, ...

of domesticated

apple An apple is an edible fruit produced by an apple tree (''Malus domestica''). Apple fruit tree, trees are agriculture, cultivated worldwide and are the most widely grown species in the genus ''Malus''. The tree originated in Central Asia, wh ...

which is often marketed as Red Pippin. It was developed in the

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by breeders at the

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, combining the

Cox's Orange Pippin Cox's Orange Pippin, in Britain often referred to simply as Cox, is an apple cultivar first grown in 1825, at Colnbrook in Buckinghamshire, England, by the retired brewer and horticulturist Richard Cox. Though the parentage of the cultivar i ...

with the

Idared Idared is a type of apple cultivar from Moscow, Idaho, United States. Variety is characterized by a non-uniform skin color. First developed at the University of Idaho Agricultural Experiment Station in 1942; it is a cross between two apple v ...

apple. According to the Orange Pippin website, it is one of the best Cox's style apples, but much easier to grow having good disease resistance.Fiesta
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It is a sweet apple, nutty and aromatic,Fruit trees direct
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and for (hard) cider. Its skin is yellow, flushed and striped in colours ranging from orange to red, and has some apple russeting. Its harvesting season is late, and it keeps fresh for three months or more.

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