Apple varieties, United Kingdom
Laxton's Pearmain
The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it1:
Raised in 1897 at Bedford by Laxton Bros., and introduced by them in 1922. Received an Award of Merit in 1922 from the Royal Horticultural Society. Fruits have firm, crisp flesh with a sweet and slightly aromatic flavour.
Family tree
Parents, grandparents and great-grandparents, as the entries in the atlas record them.
- Laxton's Pearmain United Kingdom, 1897
- Parent Cox's Orange Pippin United Kingdom, about 1825
- Parent Margil France, probably by 1608
- Parent Rosemary Russet United Kingdom, by 1831
- Parent Nonpareil France, by the mid 1500s
- Parent Cellini United Kingdom, by about 1828
- Seed parent Hubbardston Nonsuch United States, by 1832
- Parent Cox's Orange Pippin United Kingdom, about 1825
Sources
- Laxton's Pearmain (accession 1929 - 024), National Fruit Collection, Brogdale, Kent (Defra). Supports: the description quoted; the parentage; the use; the fruit's size, shape and colours and the flesh, from the collection's characterisation; the picking time at Brogdale (mid october); the other names.
- Using whole-genome SNP data to reconstruct a large multi-generation pedigree in apple germplasm, Hélène Muranty and others, BMC Plant Biology 20:2, 2020. Supports: its parents, Cox's Orange Pippin and Cellini, found from SNP data (supplementary table S3); its ploidy, diploid (supplementary table S1).
