Laxton's Early Gage
Dessert & Culinary · Plum · Prunus domestica L. · 1 accession
Raised at Bedford by Laxton Bros. and received by the National Fruit Trials in 1948 from them. Fruits have firm flesh and little juice with a subacid, little sweet and rich flavour.
Material in the National Fruit Collection is available under license.
- Picking time
- Mid August
- Flowering
- 16th April (10%) · 20th April (full) · 30th April (petal fall)
NFC characterisation
- Size
- large
- Type
- Dessert & Culinary
- Shape
- Oval
- Stone
- Freestone
- Skin colour
- Yellow-green
- Fruit weight
- 57.00 g
- Stalk length
- 12.60 mm
Source · National Fruit Collection
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
View on the NFC site