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Laxton's Leader
type: Dessert
identification: Medium size. Flat round with angular faces and often lop-sided and irregular. The base colour is greenish yellow which is almost completely washed red-brown and a pattern of fine, broken stripes. The calyx is moderately large and partly open, set in a shallow basin surrounded by an irregularly knobbed crown. The stem is medium length and thickness set in a medium deep and open cavity. Look for a chalky bloom on the skin.
characteristics: The flesh is white, fine-grained and soft. Very sweet, slightly tart with strawberry flavour.
uses: Dessert
origins: Developed from a cross of Worcester Pearmain and Gladstone at Laxton Brothers Nursery at Bedford, England in 1905. Introduced in 1939.
cultivation: Moderately vigorous.
cold storage: Does not keep well.
harvest: Ready for harvest in the first half of the third period
pollination group: C
pollination peak: 8
ploidism: Diploid. Self sterile.
harvest period: 3
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