Search Options
Copyright Information
You may use and re-use the information featured on this website (not including logos) free of charge in any format or medium, under the terms of the Open Government Licence.
Laxton's Favourite
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Raised in 1925 at Bedford by Laxton Bros. and introduced by them in 1951. Fruits have sweet, crisp, juicy flesh.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Material held in the East of England Apples & Orchards Project
- Parentage:
- Cox's Orange Pippin x Exquisite
- Shape
- Truncate conical 2
- Size
- medium 2
- Height
- 52.50mm 2
- Width
- 62.00mm 2
- Ribbing
- weak 2
- Ground Colour
- Whitish yellow 2
- Over Colour
- Dark Red 2
- Over Colour (Amount)
- medium-high 2
- Over Colour (Pattern)
- streaked 2
- Greasiness
- Medium 2
- Crunch
- crisp 2
- Coarseness
- coarse 2
- Flesh Colour
- White 2
Accession No.
1949 - 290
- Accession name
- Laxton's Favourite
- Flowering time ›››
- 4th May10% flowering
10th MayFull (80%) flowering
18th May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Late August 1
- References:
- 1. NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.
- 2. Smith, M. (1971) National Apple Register
Design: Chris Turnbull, September 2019