Applevariety
Fortune
Also known as Laxton's Fortune
Laxton's Fortune
A dessert apple with cream flesh and green-yellow skin, truncate-conical in shape, raised in 1904 and introduced in 1931; sweet, aromatic, juicy and firm.
Origin · Bedford, England
Released 1931
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Scent
- aromatic
- Firmness
- firm
- Juiciness
- juicy
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour RedBackground colour Green yellowSurface colour pattern streaked
- Flesh
- Cream
- Shape
- Truncate conical
- Size
- mediumWidth 67.00 mmHeight 60.00 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges weak
Origin & family
Where Fortune began
Recorded origin
Bedford, England
United Kingdom
- Released
- 1931
Fortune’s family
6 varieties · 5 recorded linksArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Fortune
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
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Truncate conical
- width
- 67.00 mm
- height
- 60.00 mm
- russet
- very low
- sports
- Fisher Fortune Red Fortune
- ribbing
- weak
- firmness
- firm
- synonyms
- Laxton's Fortune
- parentage
- Cox's Orange Pippin x Wealthy
- over colour
- Red
- flesh colour
- Cream
- ground colour
- Green yellow
- over colour pattern
- streaked
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.