Applevariety
Laxton's Leader
Also known as Leader
Leader
A dessert apple with greenish flesh and green-yellow skin, flat-round in shape, raised in 1905; sweet, tart and firm. Picked in early August.
Origin · Bedford
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- acid
- Firmness
- medium-firm
- Texture
- Flesh grain fine
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour BrownBackground colour Green yellowSurface colour coverage high-very highSurface colour pattern striped
- Flesh
- Greenish
- Shape
- Flat globose
- Size
- mediumWidth 57.00 mmHeight 46.50 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges weak
Origin & family
Where Laxton's Leader began
Recorded origin
Bedford
Laxton's Leader’s family
4 varieties · 3 recorded linksArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Laxton's Leader
Bedford
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
- Flat globose
- width
- 57.00 mm
- height
- 46.50 mm
- ribbing
- weak
- firmness
- medium-firm
- synonyms
- Leader
- parentage
- Gladstone x Worcester Pearmain
- coarseness
- fine
- over colour
- Brown
- flesh colour
- Greenish
- ground colour
- Green yellow
- over colour amount
- high-very high
- over colour pattern
- striped
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.