Applevariety
Laxton's Early Crimson
Also known as Early Crimson
Early Crimson
A dessert apple with white flesh and green-yellow skin, conical in shape, raised in 1908; sweet. Picked in early August.
Origin · Bedford
Released 1931
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Texture
- Flesh grain coarse
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour BrownBackground colour Green yellowSurface colour coverage high-very high
- Flesh
- White
- Shape
- Conical
- Size
- small-mediumWidth 51.00 mmHeight 42.00 mm
Origin & family
Where Laxton's Early Crimson began
Recorded origin
Bedford
- Released
- 1931
Laxton's Early Crimson’s family
5 varieties · 4 recorded linksArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Laxton's Early Crimson
Bedford
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- small-medium
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Conical
- width
- 51.00 mm
- height
- 42.00 mm
- ribbing
- medium
- synonyms
- Early Crimson
- mother to
- Merton Knave
- parentage
- Worcester Pearmain x Gladstone
- coarseness
- coarse
- over colour
- Brown
- flesh colour
- White
- ground colour
- Green yellow
- over colour amount
- high-very high
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 On the tree at the UK National Fruit Collection.