Applevariety
Laxton's Rearguard
A dessert apple with greenish flesh and yellow skin, broad round-conical in shape, raised in 1907; aromatic and firm. Picked in early October.
Origin · Bedford
Taste & texture
- Scent
- aromatic
- Firmness
- firm
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Skin greasiness WeakSurface colour RedBackground colour Yellow
- Flesh
- Greenish
- Shape
- Broad globose conical
- Size
- mediumWidth 53.00 mmHeight 43.00 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges weak
Origin & family
Where Laxton's Rearguard began
Recorded origin
Bedford
Family tree
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- medium
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Broad globose conical
- width
- 53.00 mm
- height
- 43.00 mm
- russet
- low
- ribbing
- weak
- firmness
- firm
- parentage
- Court Pendu Plat x Ribston Pippin
- greasiness
- Weak
- over colour
- Red
- flesh colour
- Greenish
- ground colour
- Yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.