Applevariety
Laxton's Herald
A dessert apple with cream flesh and green-yellow skin, broad round-conical in shape, raised in 1906; sweet, crisp and firm. Picked in late August.
Origin · Bedford
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Firmness
- firm
- Bite
- crisp
- Flavour
- fairly sweet
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour flushed orange or red with red flecksBackground colour yellow
- Flesh
- white, tinged red under skin
- Shape
- intermediate to flat, truncate-conic to rectangular, convex
- Size
- mediumFruit width 57-64 mmFruit height 45-51 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges not, or slightly ribbedRusset pattern russet at base and sometimes on body
Origin & family
Where Laxton's Herald began
Recorded origin
Bedford
Laxton's Herald’s family
3 varieties · 2 recorded linksArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Laxton's Herald
Bedford
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
Worcester Pearmain → Laxton's HeraldParent · Recorded
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- fairly sweet
- ribbing
- not, or slightly ribbed
- parentage
- Worcester Pearmain x Beauty of Bath
- fruit size
- medium
- fruit shape
- intermediate to flat, truncate-conic to rectangular, convex
- fruit width
- 57-64 mm
- over colour
- flushed orange or red with red flecks
- russet type
- russet at base and sometimes on body
- flesh colour
- white, tinged red under skin
- fruit height
- 45-51 mm
- flesh texture
- firm, crisp to slightly tough
- ground colour
- yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.