Applevariety
Laxton's Peerless
Also known as Peerless
Peerless
A dessert apple with greenish flesh and green-yellow skin, broad round-conical in shape, raised in 1900; mildly tart, juicy, crisp and firm. Picked in mid-September.
Origin · Bedford
Released 1922
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- firm
- Bite
- crisp
- Juiciness
- juicy
- Texture
- Flesh grain fine-medium
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Skin greasiness MediumSurface colour RedBackground colour Green yellowSurface colour coverage very lowSurface colour pattern mottled
- Flesh
- Greenish
- Shape
- Broad globose conical
- Size
- largeWidth 86.00 mmHeight 72.00 mm
- Appearance
- lowSurface ridges medium
Origin & family
Where Laxton's Peerless began
Recorded origin
Bedford
- Released
- 1922
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- large
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Broad globose conical
- width
- 86.00 mm
- crunch
- crisp
- height
- 72.00 mm
- russet
- low
- ribbing
- medium
- firmness
- firm
- synonyms
- Peerless
- coarseness
- fine-medium
- greasiness
- Medium
- over colour
- Red
- flesh colour
- Greenish
- ground colour
- Green yellow
- over colour amount
- very low
- over colour pattern
- mottled
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.