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Laxton's Reward
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Raised in 1925 at Bedford by Laxton Bros. Fruits have crisp, coarse flesh with a sweet flavour.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Material held in the East of England Apples & Orchards Project
- Parentage:
- Epicure x Unknown
- Shape
- Broad globose conical 2
- Size
- medium 2
- Height
- 49.00mm 2
- Width
- 62.00mm 2
- Ribbing
- weak 2
- Ground Colour
- Green yellow 2
- Over Colour
- Red 2
- Over Colour (Pattern)
- streaked 2
- Crunch
- crisp 2
- Coarseness
- coarse 2
- Flesh Colour
- Cream 2
Accession No.
1949 - 292
- Accession name
- Laxton's Reward
- Flowering time ›››
- 9th May10% flowering
14th MayFull (80%) flowering
22nd May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Early September 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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