Applevariety
Laxton's Favourite
A dessert apple with white flesh and whitish-yellow skin, truncate-conical in shape, raised in 1925; sweet, juicy and crisp. Picked in late August.
Origin · Bedford
Released 1951
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Bite
- crisp
- Juiciness
- juicy
- Texture
- Flesh grain coarse
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Skin greasiness MediumSurface colour Dark RedBackground colour Whitish yellowSurface colour coverage medium-highSurface colour pattern streaked
- Flesh
- White
- Shape
- Truncate conical
- Size
- mediumWidth 62.00 mmHeight 52.50 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges weak
Origin & family
Where Laxton's Favourite began
Recorded origin
Bedford
- Released
- 1951
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- medium
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Truncate conical
- width
- 62.00 mm
- crunch
- crisp
- height
- 52.50 mm
- ribbing
- weak
- parentage
- Cox's Orange Pippin x Exquisite
- coarseness
- coarse
- greasiness
- Medium
- over colour
- Dark Red
- flesh colour
- White
- ground colour
- Whitish yellow
- over colour amount
- medium-high
- over colour pattern
- streaked
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.