Apple varieties, United Kingdom
Laxton's Royalty
The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it1:
Raised in 1908 at Bedford by Laxton Bros. and introduced by them in 1932. Fruits have hard, crisp flesh with a slightly sweet to subacid flavour.
Family tree
Parents, grandparents and great-grandparents, as the entries in the atlas record them.
- Laxton's Royalty United Kingdom, 1908
- Seed 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
- Pollen parent Court Pendu Plat France, before 1613
- Seed parent Cox's Orange Pippin United Kingdom, about 1825
Sources
- Laxton's Royalty (accession 1949 - 098), 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 (late october); the other names.
- Ploidy level (descriptor 115159), study MALUS.PLOIDYDETERMINATION.2008, USDA Agricultural Research Service, GRIN-Global, 2008. Supports: its ploidy, diploid, measured by flow cytometry on accession PI 588823 of the USDA apple collection at Geneva, New York.
