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Laxton's Leader
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Raised in 1905 by Laxton Bros., at Bedford. Fruits have fairly firm, fine flesh with a sweet and slightly acid flavour.
- Synonyms:
- Leader
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Material held in the East of England Apples & Orchards Project
- Parentage:
- Gladstone x Worcester Pearmain
- Shape
- Flat globose 2
- Size
- medium 2
- Height
- 46.50mm 2
- Width
- 57.00mm 2
- Ribbing
- weak 2
- Ground Colour
- Green yellow 2
- Over Colour
- Brown 2
- Over Colour (Amount)
- high-very high 2
- Over Colour (Pattern)
- striped 2
- Coarseness
- fine 2
- Flesh Colour
- Greenish 2
Accession No.
1957 - 245
- Accession name
- Laxton's Leader
- Flowering time ›››
- 29th April10% flowering
5th MayFull (80%) flowering
12th May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Early 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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