Fortune
syn. Laxton's Fortune
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Raised in 1904 by Laxton Brothers Ltd. at Bedford, England and introduced in 1931. It received a First Class Certificate from the Royal Horticultural Society in 1948. Fruits have fairly firm, rather coarse-textured, juicy flesh with a sweet and good aromatic flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Flowering
- 4th May (10%) · 9th May (full) · 17th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Size
- medium
- Type
- Dessert
- Shape
- Truncate conical
- Width
- 67.00 mm
- Height
- 60.00 mm
- Russet
- very low
- Ribbing
- weak
- Firmness
- firm
- Over colour
- Red
- Flesh colour
- Cream
- Ground colour
- Green yellow
- Over colour pattern
- streaked
Source · National Fruit Collection
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