Laxton's Leader
syn. Leader
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Raised in 1905 by Laxton Bros., at Bedford. Fruits have fairly firm, fine flesh with a sweet and slightly acid flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Early August
- Flowering
- 29th April (10%) · 5th May (full) · 12th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Size
- medium
- Type
- Dessert
- Shape
- Flat globose
- Width
- 57.00 mm
- Height
- 46.50 mm
- Ribbing
- weak
- Firmness
- medium-firm
- Coarseness
- fine
- Over colour
- Brown
- Flesh colour
- Greenish
- Ground colour
- Green yellow
- Over colour amount
- high-very high
- Over colour pattern
- striped
Source · National Fruit Collection
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