Golden Melon
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Raised in 1931 at Aomori Apple Experiment Station, Japan. It was named in 1948. Fruits have soft but moderately firm flesh with a sweet and insipid flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Early October
- Flowering
- 5th May (10%) · 10th May (full) · 18th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Size
- medium
- Type
- Dessert
- Shape
- Truncate conical
- Width
- 65.00 mm
- Height
- 56.00 mm
- Russet
- very low
- Ribbing
- medium
- Firmness
- soft
- Greasiness
- Medium
- Over colour
- Brown
- Flesh colour
- Cream
- Ground colour
- Green yellow
Source · National Fruit Collection
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