Hunter Melba
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
A tetraploid form of Melba. Fruits have fairly firm, crisp, juicy flesh with a refreshing vinous flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Mid August
- Flowering
- 3rd May (10%) · 9th May (full) · 15th May (petal fall)
NFC characterisation
- Size
- large
- Type
- Dessert
- Crown
- medium
- Shape
- Flat
- Width
- 76.14 mm
- Height
- 56.27 mm
- Russet
- low
- Ribbing
- strong
- Over colour
- Dark Red
- Flesh colour
- White
- Ground colour
- Whitish yellow
- Over colour amount
- medium
- Over colour pattern
- solid flush
Source · National Fruit Collection
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