Fortune
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Raised in 1904 by Laxton Brothers Ltd. at Bedford, England and introduced in 1931. It received a First Class Certificate from the Royal Horticultural Society in 1948. Fruits have fairly firm, rather coarse-textured, juicy flesh with a sweet and good aromatic flavour.
- Synonyms:
- Laxton's Fortune
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Material held in the East of England Apples & Orchards Project
- Material held in Tidnor Wood National Collection® of Malus (Cider making)
- Material held in the Marcher Apple Network collections (Tredomen)
- Parentage:
- Cox's Orange Pippin x Wealthy
- Sports:
- Fisher Fortune
- Red Fortune
- Shape
- Truncate conical 2
- Size
- medium 2
- Height
- 60.00mm 2
- Width
- 67.00mm 2
- Ribbing
- weak 2
- Ground Colour
- Green yellow 2
- Over Colour
- Red 2
- Over Colour (Pattern)
- streaked 2
- Russet
- very low 2
- Flesh Colour
- Cream 2
Accession No.
1974 - 343
- Accession name
- Fortune (LA 64A)
- Flowering time tree 1 ›››
- 4th May10% flowering
9th MayFull (80%) flowering 17th May90% petal fall
- Picking time tree 1
- Early September 1
- Size tree 2
- medium 1
- Shape tree 2
- Globose conical 1
- Crown tree 2
- medium 1
- Ground Colour tree 2
- Whitish yellow 1
- Over Colour tree 2
- Red 1
- Over Colour Pattern tree 2
- striped/solid flush 1
- Russet tree 2
- low 1


- References:
- 1. NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.
- 2. Smith, M. (1971) National Apple Register
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