Applevariety
Laxton's Pearmain
Also known as Bedford Pearmain
Bedford Pearmain
A dessert apple with yellowish flesh and whitish-yellow skin, broad round-conical in shape, raised in 1897; sweet, aromatic, crisp and firm. Picked in mid-October.
Origin · Bedford
Released 1922
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Scent
- aromatic
- Firmness
- medium
- Bite
- crisp
- Texture
- Flesh grain fine
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour RedBackground colour Whitish yellowSurface colour pattern striped
- Flesh
- Yellowish
- Shape
- Broad globose conical
- Size
- mediumWidth 67.00 mmHeight 54.00 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges absent
Origin & family
Where Laxton's Pearmain began
Recorded origin
Bedford
- Released
- 1922
Laxton's Pearmain’s family
4 varieties · 3 recorded linksArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Laxton's Pearmain
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
- Broad globose conical
- width
- 67.00 mm
- crunch
- crisp
- height
- 54.00 mm
- ribbing
- absent
- firmness
- medium
- synonyms
- Bedford Pearmain
- parentage
- Cox's Orange Pippin x Wyken Pippin
- coarseness
- fine
- over colour
- Red
- flesh colour
- Yellowish
- ground colour
- Whitish yellow
- over colour pattern
- striped
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.