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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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
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