Laxton's Favourite
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Raised in 1925 at Bedford by Laxton Bros. and introduced by them in 1951. Fruits have sweet, crisp, juicy flesh.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Late August
- Flowering
- 4th May (10%) · 10th May (full) · 18th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Size
- medium
- Type
- Dessert
- Shape
- Truncate conical
- Width
- 62.00 mm
- Crunch
- crisp
- Height
- 52.50 mm
- Ribbing
- weak
- Coarseness
- coarse
- Greasiness
- Medium
- Over colour
- Dark Red
- Flesh colour
- White
- Ground colour
- Whitish yellow
- Over colour amount
- medium-high
- Over colour pattern
- streaked
Source · National Fruit Collection
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