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Laxton's Leader
Malus domestica Borkh. Borkh.
Dessert
Measured Phenotype
- Fruit height
- 46.5 mm
- Fruit width
- 57.0 mm
source: NFC
source: NFC
Each value is the highest-precedence :Assertion attached to this cultivar; full provenance (year, evidence type, confidence) is preserved in the graph.
Laxton's Leader is a small dessert apple from Bedfordshire, England, first developed in 1905 as a cross between Gladstone and Worcester Pearmain. It measures approximately 57 mm wide by 46 mm tall and is ready to eat in August.
Best Uses
fresh_eating
Lineage
Parents
Origin & History
- Origin type
- deliberate cross
References
- UK National Fruit Collection
- 3454
- Wikidata
- Q41778853