Laxton's Rearguard
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Raised in 1907 at Bedford by Laxton Bros. Fruits have firm flesh with a slightly aromatic flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Early October
- Flowering
- 3rd May (10%) · 9th May (full) · 15th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Size
- medium
- Type
- Dessert
- Shape
- Broad globose conical
- Width
- 53.00 mm
- Height
- 43.00 mm
- Russet
- low
- Ribbing
- weak
- Firmness
- firm
- Greasiness
- Weak
- Over colour
- Red
- Flesh colour
- Greenish
- Ground colour
- Yellow
Source · National Fruit Collection
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