Laxton's Herald
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Raised in 1906 by Laxton Bros. at Bedford. Fruits have firm, crisp, slightly tough flesh with a fairly sweet flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Late August
- Flowering
- 3rd May (10%) · 8th May (full) · 15th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Flavour
- fairly sweet
- Ribbing
- not, or slightly ribbed
- Fruit size
- medium
- Fruit shape
- intermediate to flat, truncate-conic to rectangular, convex
- Fruit width
- 57-64 mm
- Over colour
- flushed orange or red with red flecks
- Russet type
- russet at base and sometimes on body
- Flesh colour
- white, tinged red under skin
- Fruit height
- 45-51 mm
- Flesh texture
- firm, crisp to slightly tough
- Ground colour
- yellow
NFC characterisation
- Size
- small-medium
- Type
- Dessert
- Crown
- weak-medium
- Shape
- Broad globose conical
- Crunch
- crisp
- Russet
- low
- Ribbing
- medium
- Firmness
- firm
- Over colour
- Red
- Flesh colour
- Cream
- Ground colour
- Green yellow
- Over colour amount
- medium
- Over colour pattern
- striped/solid flush
Source · National Fruit Collection
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