Applevariety
Exquisite
Also known as Laxton's Exquisite
Laxton's Exquisite
A dessert apple with cream flesh and yellow skin, truncate-conical in shape, raised in 1902; aromatic, juicy, crisp and firm. Picked in late August.
Origin · Bedford, England
Taste & texture
- Scent
- aromatic
- Firmness
- firm
- Bite
- crisp
- Juiciness
- juicy
- Texture
- Flesh grain medium-coarse
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour OrangeBackground colour YellowSurface colour pattern streaked
- Flesh
- Cream
- Shape
- Truncate conical
- Size
- medium-largeWidth 72.00 mmHeight 63.00 mm
Origin & family
Where Exquisite began
Recorded origin
Bedford, England
United Kingdom
Exquisite’s family
6 varieties · 7 recorded linksArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Exquisite
Bedford, England, United Kingdom
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- medium-large
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Truncate conical
- width
- 72.00 mm
- crunch
- crisp
- height
- 63.00 mm
- ribbing
- medium
- synonyms
- Laxton's Exquisite
- father to
- Laxton's Victory Laxton's Favourite
- parentage
- Cellini x Cox's Orange Pippin
- coarseness
- medium-coarse
- over colour
- Orange
- flesh colour
- Cream
- ground colour
- Yellow
- over colour pattern
- streaked
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.