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Laxton’s Royalty
type: Dessert
identification: Medium size. Flat rounded. The skin base colour is green washed a dull dark red with a pattern of fine stripes showing at the stem end. Light coloured lenticels. The eye is medium size and open, set in a shallow and wide, ligthly puckered basin. The stem is somewhat short and medium thickness, set in a deep and narrow, russeted cavity.
characteristics: The flesh is white with green tinges, especially next to the skin. Firm and hard. Juicy and somewhat sweet, quite aromatic. Keeps three months in cold storage.
uses: Dessert
origins: Laxton Bros. of Bedford. Cox’s Orange Pippin x Court Pendu Plat 1908 — Cox s Orange Pippin x Court Pendu Plat, 1908, Laxton Brothers Ltd., Bedford, England, introduced, 1932 Raised in 1908 at Bedford by Laxton Bros. and introduced by them in 1932.
cultivation: Moderately vigorous, upright. Ready for harvest in the second half of the FOURTH period.
pollination group: F
pollination peak: 21
ploidism: Self sterile. Group F Day 21
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