Applevariety
Laxton's Superb
Also known as Laxton Superb +2
Laxton Superb · Laxtons Superb · Superb
A dessert apple with cream flesh and green-yellow skin, round in shape, raised in 1897; sweet, juicy and firm. Picked in early October.
Origin · Bedford
Released 1922
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Firmness
- firm
- Juiciness
- juicy
- Flavour
- sweet
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour flushed crimson with darder streaksBackground colour greenish yellow to yellow
- Flesh
- cream
- Shape
- intermediate, truncate-conic, convex
- Size
- mediumFruit width 64-76 mmFruit height 51-64 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges not ribbed
Origin & family
Where Laxton's Superb began
Recorded origin
Bedford
- Released
- 1922
Laxton's Superb’s family
11 varieties · 12 recorded linksArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Laxton's Superb
Bedford
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- sports
- Crimson Superb Maxton Red Laxton's Superb Russet Superb
- flavour
- sweet
- ribbing
- not ribbed
- synonyms
- Laxton Superb, Laxtons Superb, Superb
- mother to
- Tydeman's Late Orange Merton Pearmain
- parentage
- Wyken Pippin x Cox's Orange Pippin
- fruit size
- medium
- fruit shape
- intermediate, truncate-conic, convex
- fruit width
- 64-76 mm
- over colour
- flushed crimson with darder streaks
- flesh colour
- cream
- fruit height
- 51-64 mm
- flesh texture
- firm, fine
- ground colour
- greenish yellow to yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.