Applevariety
Laxton's Royalty
Also known as Royalty
Royalty
A dessert apple with cream flesh and green-yellow skin, flat-round in shape, raised in 1908; sweet, mildly tart, crisp and firm. Picked in late October.
Origin · Bedford
Released 1932
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- firm-very firm
- Bite
- crisp
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour RedBackground colour Green yellowSurface colour pattern striped
- Flesh
- Cream
- Shape
- Flat globose
- Size
- mediumWidth 63.00 mmHeight 49.50 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges very weak
Origin & family
Where Laxton's Royalty began
Recorded origin
Bedford
- Released
- 1932
Laxton's Royalty’s family
4 varieties · 3 recorded linksArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Laxton's Royalty
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
- 63.00 mm
- crunch
- crisp
- height
- 49.50 mm
- russet
- low
- ribbing
- very weak
- firmness
- firm-very firm
- synonyms
- Royalty
- parentage
- Cox's Orange Pippin x Court Pendu Plat
- over colour
- Red
- flesh colour
- Cream
- ground colour
- Green yellow
- over colour pattern
- striped
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.