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Baxter
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Arose near Brockville, Canada. It was known in about 1800. Fruits have firm, coarse flesh with a rather insipid flavour.
- Synonyms:
- Baxter's Red, la Rue, Larue, Red Pound
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Shape
- Flat globose 2
- Size
- large 2
- Height
- 76.00mm 2
- Width
- 100.00mm 2
- Ribbing
- weak 2
- Ground Colour
- Green yellow 2
- Over Colour
- Red 2
- Over Colour (Pattern)
- mottled 2
- Russet
- very low 2
- Coarseness
- coarse 2
- Flesh Colour
- Greenish 2
Accession No.
1930 - 027
- Accession name
- Baxter
- Flowering time ›››
- 4th May10% flowering
9th MayFull (80%) flowering
18th May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Late 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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