Applevariety
Epicure
Also known as Laxton's Epicure
Laxton's Epicure
A dessert apple with cream flesh and green-yellow skin, truncate-conical in shape, raised in 1909 and introduced in 1929; juicy, crisp and firm. Picked in late August.
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Origin · Bedford
Released 1929
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Taste & texture
- Firmness
- medium-firm
- Bite
- crisp
- Juiciness
- juicy
- Texture
- Flesh grain fine
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour BrownBackground colour Green yellowSurface colour pattern streaked
- Flesh
- Cream
- Shape
- Truncate conical
- Size
- mediumWidth 57.50 mmHeight 49.00 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges absent
Origin & family
Where Epicure began
Recorded origin
Bedford
- Released
- 1929
Epicure’s family
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Epicure
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- medium
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Truncate conical
- width
- 57.50 mm
- crunch
- crisp
- height
- 49.00 mm
- sports
- Epicurean
- ribbing
- absent
- firmness
- medium-firm
- synonyms
- Laxton's Epicure
- father to
- Merton Knave
- mother to
- Laxton's Reward
- parentage
- Wealthy x Cox's Orange Pippin
- coarseness
- fine
- over colour
- Brown
- flesh colour
- Cream
- ground colour
- Green yellow
- over colour pattern
- streaked