Cultivar origin

Buchholz & Buchholz Nursery, Gaston, Oregon, USA

Discovered / selected by

Talon Buchholz (attributed by Gossler Farms)

'Pixie' is associated with Buchholz & Buchholz Nursery in Gaston, Oregon. Oregon State University explicitly credits that nursery with releasing the cultivar, while Gossler Farms' nursery description attributes its selection to Talon Buchholz. These accounts distinguish selection from commercial introduction, but neither provides a precise year. Its dense branching and dark purple-red foliage have encouraged comparisons with a smaller 'Bloodgood'. Those comparisons alone do not establish parentage. Although one nursery account describes a witches'-broom origin on 'Bloodgood', that claim was not independently confirmed in an original-selector account, so its exact developmental origin remains unresolved here. Oregon State also cautions that 'Pixie', initially released as a dwarf, can develop into a larger semi-dwarf tree.